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Tories plan to scrap National Identity Register

Kablenet.com Kablenet

Published: 13 Jul 2009 11:55 BST

The shadow home secretary has said that he would reduce the scope of the identity scheme's database.

Chris Grayling told a House of Commons debate on scrapping identity cards, on 6 July, that a Conservative government would not go ahead with the National Identity Register (NIR) database.

In response to a question from his predecessor David Davis MP, Grayling said: "It remains our intention, as it was when my right honourable friend was shadow home secretary, not to proceed with the National Identity Register. I see little reason why the rules that apply to the application for a passport should change radically given the current circumstances."

Grayling added that cancellation would rapidly follow a Conservative election victory.

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Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Chris Huhne said that passports' biometric data should be stored only within documents, and not on a central database. Grayling answered Huhne: "My view is that we should do the minimum that we have to do. If data are submitted for a passport application, they will probably be retained in the passport database."

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aka a national identity register...

(well for 90% of us..)

It remains to be seen whether the recent secondary legislation allowing transfer of information is acted upon with regards the so-called passport database...