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House of Commons

 
 

Tuesday 18th October 2005

 

Report Stage Proceedings

 

Identity Cards Bill, As Amended


 

New ClauseS

 

Procedure for procurement of the Register

 

Mr Mark Todd

 

Lynne Jones

 

Not selected  NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State must not make an order containing (with or without other

 

provision) any provision for procurement of the Register unless—

 

(a)    

a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a

 

resolution of each House; and

 

(b)    

each of the resolutions for approving the draft was agreed more than 60

 

days after the day on which the draft was laid before the House in

 

question.

 

(2)    

No draft order containing provision for procurement of the Register is to be laid

 

before Parliament unless—

 

(a)    

the Secretary of State has prepared and published a report containing a

 

proposal for the making of such provision;

 

(b)    

the report sets out—

 

(i)    

the Secretary of State’s reasons for making the proposal,

 

(ii)    

the costs and benefits of establishing and maintaining the

 

Register,

 

(iii)    

the calculations underlying assumptions on likely savings, and

 

(iv)    

the methodologies relating to risk analysis and management

 

control in respect of information technology;

 

(c)    

the report has been laid before Parliament and each House has approved

 

the proposal contained in the report, either with or without modifications;

 

and

 

(d)    

the draft order gives effect to the proposal so far as approved by both

 

Houses.

 

(3)    

An approval given in either House satisfies the requirements of subsection (2)(c)

 

only if it was given in that House on the first occasion on which a motion for the

 

approval of the proposal was made in that House by a Minister of the Crown

 

after—

 

(a)    

the laying of the report; or


 
 

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(b)    

if more than one report containing that proposal has been laid before that

 

House, the laying of the one laid most recently.

 

(4)    

In reckoning a period of 60 days for the purposes of subsection (1), no account

 

shall be taken of a day for which—

 

(a)    

Parliament is dissolved or prorogued; or

 

(b)    

the House in question is adjourned as part of an adjournment of more than

 

four days.’.

 


 

Unauthorised use of information

 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

Not selected  NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

A person is guilty of an offence if, without lawful authority, he uses or stores or

 

causes to be used or stored as a searchable index, key or record reference in any

 

information retrieval system any information listed in section 4 of Schedule 1.

 

(2)    

For the purposes of this section a person shall have lawful authority to store or

 

use information listed in section 4 of Schedule 1 if the information is used or

 

stored in such a manner that it can be used only by properly authorised persons

 

for a relevant purpose and the use is either—

 

(a)    

the establishment or maintenance of the Register;

 

(b)    

the issue, modification, cancellation or surrender of ID cards;

 

(c)    

the Commissioner’s functions;

 

(d)    

by a designated documents authority and relates to an application for or

 

the issue, cancellation or surrender of the designated documents for

 

which that authority is responsible;

 

(e)    

a purpose for which the information has been provided to the person in

 

accordance with section 19 or section 20;

 

(f)    

the verification of registrable facts under this Act where provision is

 

made for the information to be deleted as soon as reasonably possible

 

after the verification is complete and in any event within 28 days of being

 

recorded;

 

(g)    

by police for the detection of crime;

 

(h)    

in pursuance of an order or direction of a court or of a tribunal established

 

under any enactment; or

 

(i)    

necessary for the person to comply with a requirement on him imposed

 

by or under any enactment.

 

(3)    

Where a person guilty of an offence under this section is a body corporate or

 

public authority then any real person by whose instructions or under whose

 

purported authority the unauthorised use or storage took place shall be liable.

 

(4)    

A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction for

 

a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or to both.’.

 



 
 

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Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  21

 

Page  1,  line  2  [Clause  1],  leave out from beginning to end of line 4 and insert—

 

    

‘National Passport Register

 

(1)    

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a register of

 

individuals to whom passports are issued (to be known as “the National Passport

 

Register”).’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  22

 

Page  1,  line  7  [Clause  1],  leave out subsection (3) and insert—

 

‘(3)    

The statutory purpose is to facilitate, by the maintenance of a record of registrable

 

facts about individuals in the United Kingdom to whom passports are issued, a

 

secure and reliable method for registrable facts to be verified for the purpose of

 

issuing passports.’.

 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

 

Negatived on division  8

 

Page  1,  line  10  [Clause  1],  after ‘others’, insert ‘who reasonably require proof’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  23

 

Page  1,  line  14  [Clause  1],  leave out subsection (4).

 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

 

Not called  9

 

Page  1,  line  16  [Clause  1],  leave out from beginning to end of line 6 on page 2 and

 

insert—

 

‘(a)    

of assistance to the Secretary of State in preventing or detecting terrorist

 

acts in the United Kingdom or elsewhere or otherwise in the interests of

 

national security;

 

(b)    

of assistance to the Secretary of State in preventing or detecting serious

 

crime;

 

(c)    

for the purposes of controlling illegal immigration and enforcing

 

immigration controls; or

 

(d)    

for the purpose of securing proper provision of relevant public services.

 

(4A)    

For the purposes of subsection(4)—

 

    

“relevant public services” means the provision of—

 

(a)    

healthcare,

 

(b)    

housing,


 
 

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(c)    

education, and

 

(d)    

social benefits;

 

    

“serious crime” means crime giving rise to an offence triable only on

 

indictment.’.

 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

 

Not called  6

 

Page  1,  line  16  [Clause  1],  leave out paragraph (a).

 


 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

 

Not called  10

 

Page  2,  line  1  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘prevention or’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not called  24

 

Page  2,  line  1  [Clause  1],  after second ‘of’, insert ‘serious’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  25

 

Page  2,  line  8  [Clause  1],  at end insert ‘and

 

(aa)    

an address at which he can be contacted.’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  26

 

Page  2,  line  9  [Clause  1],  leave out paragraphs (b) to (i).

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  27

 

Page  2,  line  15  [Clause  1],  leave out paragraph (f).

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  28

 

Page  2,  line  16  [Clause  1],  after ‘numbers’, insert ‘recordable under Schedule


 
 

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1(4)(1)’.

 

Mr Secretary Clarke

 

Agreed to  1

 

Page  2,  line  20  [Clause  1],  at end insert—

 

‘(5A)    

But the registrable facts falling within subsection (5) (g) do ‘not include any

 

sensitive personal data (within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998

 

(c. 29)) or anything the disclosure of which would tend to reveal such data.’.

 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

 

Not selected  11

 

Page  2,  line  38  [Clause  2],  leave out ‘16’ and insert ‘18’.

 


 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  30

 

Page  3,  line  5  [Clause  2],  leave out ‘or’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  31

 

Page  3,  line  6  [Clause  2],  leave out paragraph (c).

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  32

 

Page  3,  line  7  [Clause  2],  at end insert ‘; or

 

(d)    

he is a citizen of a European Union Member State with an approved

 

identity document issued by that state.’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not called  33

 

Page  3,  line  8  [Clause  2],  leave out subsection (4).

 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

Not selected  46

 

Page  3,  line  13  [Clause  2],  after ‘purposes’, insert ‘; and

 

(c)    

the individual is required to be registered in accordance with section 6.’.


 
 

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Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not called  34

 

Page  3,  line  18  [Clause  2],  leave out subsection (6).

 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

 

Not called  12

 

Page  3,  line  18  [Clause  2],  leave out subsections (6) and (7).

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not selected  35

 

Page  3,  line  23  [Clause  2],  at end insert—

 

‘(8)    

No draft order containing a provision that the Secretary of State is authorised to

 

make by this section is to be laid before Parliament unless—

 

(a)    

the Secretary of State has prepared and published a report containing a

 

proposal for the making of such provision;

 

(b)    

the report sets out the Secretary of State’s reasons for making the

 

proposal;

 

(c)    

the report has been laid before Parliament and each House has approved

 

the proposal contained in the report, either with or without modifications;

 

and

 

(d)    

the draft order gives effect to the proposal so far as approved by both

 

Houses.’.

 


 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

Not selected  58

 

Page  4,  line  6  [Clause  3],  at end insert—

 

‘(3A)    

In cases where subsection (3) does not apply the Secretary of State shall be liable

 

for inaccurate information recorded about an individual and all consequences of

 

any such inaccuracy—

 

(a)    

to that individual;

 

(b)    

to any person to whom the information is supplied;

 

(c)    

to any person to whom false information is verified by the Register;

 

(d)    

to any person to whom true information is shown to be false in

 

verification by the Register.

 

    

Each such person shall have an action for damages against the Secretary of

 

State.’.


 
 

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Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

Not selected  53

 

Page  4,  line  9  [Clause  3],  at end insert ‘provided that information about an

 

individual entered in the Register in accordance with subsection (2) shall be deleted from

 

the Register on application by that individual.’.

 

Mr Neil Gerrard

 

John McDonnell

 

Mr Robert N. Wareing

 

Mr Michael Clapham

 

Ms Diane Abbott

 

Mrs Ann Cryer

 

Lynne Jones

 

Mr Austin Mitchell

 

Mr Andrew Love

 

Mark Lazarowicz

 

Negatived on division  5

 

Page  4,  line  42  [Clause  5],  leave out ‘must’ and insert ‘may, if the applicant so

 

chooses’.

 


 

Mr Edward Garnier

 

Patrick Mercer

 

Mr Tobias Ellwood

 

Mr Ben Wallace

 

Not selected  47

 

Page  5,  line  7  [Clause  5],  after ‘application’, insert—

 

‘(d)    

state that the individual does not apply to be entered in the Register.’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not called  39

 

Page  5,  line  17  [Clause  5],  at end insert ‘, provided that the specified place is no

 

further than 20 miles by road to the nearest point on the public road network to the

 

individual’s place of residence’.

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not called  36

 

Page  5,  line  18  [Clause  5],  leave out paragraph (b).

 

Mr Alistair Carmichael

 

Mr Mark Oaten

 

Tim Farron

 

Not called  37

 

Page  5,  line  18  [Clause  5],  leave out ‘, and other biometric information about

 

himself,’.


 
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