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Identity Cards Bill

As my right hon. Friend knows, I was vice-chair of the Labour party’s national policy forum in the run-up to last year’s general election and as such, I took a close interest in the manifesto’s development. I am pleased to remind him, and ask him to confirm, that that manifesto said that we"““would introduce ID cards, including biometric data like fingerprints, backed up by a national register and rolling out initially on a voluntary basis as people renewed their passports””." So it is in our manifesto.