NO2ID

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been arrested in England and Wales for possession of (a) a false passport and (b) other false identity documents in each of the last five years. [86809]
Joan Ryan: Information on arrests collected centrally in England and Wales is based on persons arrested for notifiable offences by main offence group only and does not identify individual offences.

Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the environmental impact of producing identity cards; and if he will make a statement. [88948]
Joan Ryan: No assessment has been undertaken as it is not yet appropriate [...]

Lembit Opik: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the Government have spent on developing the identity cards scheme; and if he will make a statement. [89025]
Joan Ryan: Since the start of the financial year 2003-04, £46.4 million has been spent in total on the identity cards scheme up to the end of May 2006.

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of whether the risk of identity fraud to the general public has changed since July 2005. [86648]
Joan Ryan: [...] Evidence from CIFAS, The UKs Fraud Prevention Service and our updated estimate of the cost of identity fraud to the UK economy, suggest that the problem has grown in recent years, but data covering the timeframe of this question is not yet available.

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 16 January 2006, Official Report, column 1116W, to the right hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang), on identity fraud, what assessment he has had made of the reasons for the fall in the number of detected fraudulent passport applications made using a deceased persons details. [88933]
Joan Ryan: [...] Secondly, since IPS started using this data [deceased persons lists] 184 people have been arrested for making fraudulent passport applications. [...] Although deterrence is very difficult to measure, it is likely that this success has deterred other criminals from submitting applications in the identities of deceased persons.

Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions he has had with EU governments on co-operation on identity fraud. [89107]
Joan Ryan: [...] The G8 Lyon-Roma group has undertaken a number of projects aimed at reducing document abuse. This included a commitment, which has been implemented, to submit data on lost and stolen passports to Interpol. A best practices paper on processing travellers who present lost, stolen or cancelled travel documents has also been approved and transmitted to the International Civil Aviation Organisation.