For the very obvious reason that, as far as I understand it, they were moving over to biometric-based information for passports anyway, so that process was already in hand and, unrelated to the Bill, that would have happened anyway.
Identity Cards Bill
Proceeding contribution from
George Howarth
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 16 March 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Identity Cards Bill.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
443 c1657
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2024-04-21 11:57:19 +0100
URI
http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_309304
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_309304
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_309304