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Identity Cards Bill

The noble Baroness, as usual, gave a very helpful reply and there may be even more detail in the lengthy document which we have not yet seen. I pursue one aspect of the matter. The noble Baroness took up the point I had anticipated—that we would take all these identification features together. But I do not think she completely answered my point about what I think are termed ““false rejects””. The report from which I have already quoted points out that:"““Where the threshold is set depends upon the situation in which we are using the biometric technology””." Obviously, if we are dealing with access to a country, we want to set a very high standard and therefore we do not mind if there are false rejects, even if they cause inconvenience. But very often we will be dealing with situations where convenience will be much more important and we will not want a lot of false rejects. Is it the Government’s intention to have a range of operational factors available to give guidelines? Have they worked out how they are going to deal with the problem of false rejects and set a variety of standards?