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House of Commons

Tuesday 6 July 2010

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

Identity Documents Bill

[FIFTH Sitting]

Clauses 4 to 12 Agreed to.

Schedule Agreed to.

Clauses 13 and 14 Agreed to.

New Clauses

Passport fees for holders of ID cards

Meg Hillier

Negatived  NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘If a person to whom an ID card has been issued applies for a new passport before

the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act is

passed, the fee charged for the passport shall be reduced by £30.’.

ID cards issued to airside workers

Meg Hillier

Negatived on division  NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Secretary of State must take such steps as he considers appropriate to ensure

that work undertaken at Manchester Airport and London City Airport before the

passing of this Act on the assessment of the benefits for airport security of secure

identity documents is completed.

(2)
The Secretary of State must lay before both Houses of Parliament a report on—

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(a)
the outcome of the work referred to in subsection (1), and

(b)
the measures the Secretary of State proposes to implement arising from

it.

(3)
Any ID card issued to an airside worker under the critical workers scheme, which

is valid immediately before the day on which this Act is passed, shall continue to

be valid until the report referred to in subsection (2) has been laid.’.

ID cards issued to transgendered persons

Meg Hillier

Withdrawn  NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘Any ID card issued to a transgendered person, which is valid immediately before

the day on which this Act is passed, shall continue to be valid until the Secretary

of State has laid before both Houses of Parliament a report to the effect that the

Secretary of State is satisfied that an identity document in the assigned gender is

available for issue to a transgendered person.’.

Damian Green

Agreed to

That certain written evidence already reported to the House be appended to the procedings of

the Committee.

Bill to be reported, without Amendment



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