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Identity Cards Bill

I want to try to help the noble Baroness, as I always have done on this. I commend to the Committee Appendix B of her report, paragraph 17 to the end. It is a pity that my quotation comes at the end and it is a pity that we have not had a chance to read it before. I had the advantage of having it delivered to me expressly. The first page of the report I opened states:"““Can biometrics be forged or ‘spoofed’? Studies have shown that biometrics can be ‘spoofed’ to fool a biometric reader””." That was all that I had time to read in detail, but I commend to the House and to everyone the initiative that the noble Baroness has taken. It is a pity that her department could not be a little quicker on its feet.