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Identity Cards Bill

moved Amendment No. 97A:"Page 4, line 27, leave out paragraph (a)." The noble Lord said: Amendment No. 97A leaves out the words,"““documents that a person has a power or duty to issue by virtue of provision made by or under an enactment””." One could say that those words are entirely innocent of any detail. They are very vague so I have tabled the amendment to explore the mind of the noble Baroness to see whether they can be improved. They could hardly be vaguer. I am starting to believe that vagueness in the language of the Home Office has a high cardinal virtue but not elsewhere. I should be very interested to see whether the noble Baroness is willing to change these words so that they mean something and provide some guidance. They caught my eye as being part of a very vague, massive parcel, which needs a lot of probing. I realise that the Government are becoming impatient and want to get on with the Bill, but I hope that they sympathise with the desire that is expressed quite briefly by Members on this side of the Chamber that some of it is very confusing and very vague indeed—unacceptably vague. I beg to move.