Identity Cards Bill

Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that the whole purpose of having a clean identity base is to ensure that once someone’s identity has been verified by taking the biometric, that biometric can then never be used by anyone else. If someone takes someone’s identity to begin with, they would have to continue with that identity for the rest of their lives. Therefore, the purpose of a clean identity base nationally is to achieve what the Conservative party paraded as its policy before the election, namely, an understanding of who is in the country, who is entitled to work, who is entitled to services and to ensure that those who are not, are precluded from working, drawing down on free services or being involved in other such ventures. Is that not the case?