Identity Cards Bill

Even worse. May I assure the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak that the point that she has made needs making constantly. The Government will not listen to it unless it is made constantly. It has taken us nine months to get the Government to change from compulsion by stealth to compulsion by direct legislation for 20 per cent. of the population, but we should not forget that there are plenty of other opportunities for the Government to mine in—perhaps I should say to eat into it like a weevil. [Interruption.] Indeed—I see a bag of weevils sitting on the Government Front Bench.