Identity Cards: Costs

(asked on 16th May 2024) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of introducing identity cards for the legal population of the United Kingdom.


Answered by
Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait
Lord Sharpe of Epsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 23rd May 2024

My Lords, the Home Office has made no recent assessment on identity cards. In 2010 the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition decided to end the ID card scheme and the associated National Identity Register. The Home Office has held no further discussions on the reintroduction of identity cards.

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