Identity Cards Bill

No, with respect to the hon. Gentleman, my hon. Friend’s comments related to a fatuous piece in one of the Sunday papers, which referred to a clause in the Road Safety Bill about the recall of paper licences and the issue of more secure and substantial licences. We have made it clear that we shall look only at passports and immigration documents in the implementation of the first phase of ID cards. We have never excluded from subsequent consideration documents such as driving licences, but the hon. Gentleman’s point relates neither to the story to which my hon. Friend referred nor to reality.