...original plans to sign it in 2010. "We have not scrapped ID cards, we are accelerating their introduction," he toldParliament. He pointed to the fact that the plans to offer ID cards to residents in Manchester on a voluntary basis had...
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...would be wholly inappropriate to do so on the basis of opposition policy." Former home secretary Jacqui Smith toldParliament in March that to cancel the scheme for two of the contractors would incur £40m in costs for the government. Grayling...
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