News: ID Cards, a faltering start

Today should have been the day when the government started to collect the biometric data which will form part of the ID card – but, surprise surprise, the start date has been postponed with no reason given. It’s not a very promising start for what the Government claim will be a flagship IT project – they are completely confident that this system can be trusted to provide proof of entitlement to benefits and medical treatment, but they can’t even get it started on time.

There is no evidence that this expensive scheme will help the so called war on terror, nor will it combat benefit fraud, nor will it do anything to assist an over burdened immigration service. Liberal Democrats would scrap the scheme and use the money to put 10,000 more police on the streets, and improve cross-border co-operation to prevent international crime.

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Ros Scott
26 March 2007