One in three expected not to co-operate on ID Cards

6.02.39pm UTC (GMT +0000) Tue 10th Apr 2007

UK National Identity Card (Design Mock-up)

The government anticipate that one in three people will not cooperate with ID card checks, according to papers released under the Freedom of Information Act. The government were forced to reveal their working assumptions by the Information Tribunal after they resisted the initial request from the Liberal Democrats back in 2004. In a letter to Mark Oaten, who made the request, the government claimed the assumptions were now out of date.

Liberal Democrat Spokesperson Jeremy Browne MP said "A major failing of ID cards is that it will cost billions of pounds to coerce law-abiding people into providing their details while those with genuinely malign intentions will strive to avoid complying with the authorities."