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Identity Cards

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Andy Burnham) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Today I have published an extract of an independent review by KPMG of the cost methodology and cost assumptions used by the identity cards scheme. KPMG concluded that the costing methodology is robust and appropriate for this stage of development. Copies of the extract will be placed in the House Library together with copies of the Home Office's summary of its work in progress on the areas of the identity cards scheme highlighted by the review.