National Identity Cards Debate

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Department: Home Office

National Identity Cards

Baroness Sharples Excerpts
Tuesday 5th July 2016

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Keen of Elie Portrait Lord Keen of Elie
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The Government certainly agree that the answer is not the introduction of identity cards.

Baroness Sharples Portrait Baroness Sharples (Con)
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What is the estimated cost of identity cards?

Lord Keen of Elie Portrait Lord Keen of Elie
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The estimated costs of following through on the original proposals, which began under consultation in 2003, were enacted in 2006 and implemented in 2009, were estimated in 2010 at just over £840 million.