£93 to prove your identity under Labour

3.00.00pm GMT Wed 25th May 2005

no2id logo - the anti-identity card (id card) and national identity database campaign

Responding to the publication of the Identity Cards Bill, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Mark Oaten MP, said "If there was ever any doubt that the costs of this scheme were going to spiral out of control, the new figures should put paid to them. £93 is a ludicrous amount of money to ask people to pay, especially when you consider the combined cost for a family with children over the age of 16."

Mr. Oaten further said "Support for these plans will drop off very quickly when people realise the costs involved. The failure rates in the biometrics pilot are astonishing. The Government is spending our money on a half-baked scheme, based on half-baked technology."