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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the (a) conferences, (b) seminars and (c) meetings with private sector representatives attended by members of the Identity Cards Programme team in the last six months. [208287] Mr. Browne: In the last six months, members of the Identity Cards Programme team have: (a) Attended the following conferences Biometrics 2004 CIFAS Executive Forum e-Government Exchange e-Government Summit National Fraud Forum Risk and Security Management UK and Ireland Fraud Liaison Group Annual Conference Whitehall Industry Group Fraud Solutions Workshops; and conferences organised by: Experian The Financial Services Authority Institute for Public Policy Research Institution of Electrical Engineers International Association for Biometrics Royal United Services Institute Telecommunications Users' Fraud Forum; (b) Participated in the following seminars BT Syntegra Consultation Event Naked Science: The State of Identity (Science Museum/Dana Centre); and four seminars organised by Intellect the trade body for the UK based information technology, telecommunications and electronics industry. (c) Held meetings with the following private sector organisations: ABTA Airline Operators Association APACS Atmel Atos Origin Authentec Aware Axon BAA BAR-UK BATA Bioscrypt British Bankers' Association BT Callcredit Cap Gemini CBI Cherry Corporation CIFAS Cogent Consult Hyperion CoreStreet Datacard De La Rue Director of Foundation for Science and Technology EDS Equifax Eye Ticket Corporation Experian Finance and Leasing Association The Football Association Fujitsu Microelectronics Generics Group Giesecke and Devrient Hewlett Packard Idenix IFTO Infineon Intellect Indian Lasercard London City Airport NERA Consulting Oberthur OCE ORGA OVD Kinegram Passenger Shipping Association Precise Biometrics Premier Electronics Prudential Royal Bank of Scotland Setec Sharp Corporation SMARTRAC St Microelectronics Visa Europe Meetings have also been held with Small Business Service Inland Revenue MPPC Payroll Group Financial Services Authority where private sector organisations have been in attendance. For the purposes of this answer, the following definitions have been used. "Conference" means an event organised by an external organisation where a member of the Programme Team has been invited to participate or attend. "Seminar" means an event which was arranged by the Programme or by an external organisation where identity cards was the only or principal item of discussion. "Meeting" means any other meeting which involved a private organisation, where identity cards were the primary subject. Meetings with organisations which are currently providing services to the Programme team or with organisations which at the time were bidding to provide services to the Programme Team have been excluded.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

208287; 430 c472-4W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Identity cards Private sector Conferences

Link

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