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Identity Cards Bill

No, I will not. There is little more that I can say other than to suggest that at this time the other place should listen and recognise that the elected House, again today, will insist on retaining the requirement in the Bill for anyone obtaining a designated document such as a passport to be entered on the national identity register. I believe that the scope for further compromise is small, but I and my right hon. Friend Baroness Scotland of Asthal will be prepared to listen constructively to what is said when the Bill returns to the other place today, in the hope that it can at last pass on to the statute book.