Identity Cards Bill

As I said a moment ago, it is a decision for those Departments how and when they engage with the creation of the national identity register. It is up to each Department to make its own business case about whether the investment that it would need to make is justified. At the point at which it makes that decision, it is a matter for it as to whether it puts that information into the public domain. I am saying to my hon. Friend that that is not a crucial element on which our costings rest. We believe that we are delivering something of public benefit that people will want to use, but such information is not a crucial plank on which the costings that we have put before the House are based.