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Identity Cards Bill

I was proposing to move this amendment in about 60 seconds because the issue is simple. We think that these penalties are substantially too great. We have proposed rather silly counters and this is not a bargaining game, although it may look like it. I do not stand by any of the replacement figures—changing £1,000 to £50 and so on. I am simply trying to bring into play the thought that the penalties here are too high across the board and to encourage the Government to think in terms of first offence and second offence penalties. I think we all accept that when someone is incorrigible and simply refuses to do what is reasonable in terms of attending an interview or whatever, he or she should cop it the second time round, but not the first time round. I leave it at that. I beg to move.