Liberals Oppose ID cards latest press release:
Cllr Steve Radford
President of The Liberal Party
David Maher
Liberal Party NEC
Liberal Party NEC
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Dear Editor
The House of Lords is to debate the issue of ID cards, we hope they will force this evasive government to reveal the true projected cost of the proposed scheme
Whilst the Home Office has acknowledged that the running costs would be in the order of £584million per year, they have so far obstructed revealing the true picture of the capital investment needed to start up the scheme and the software costs of ensuring that other departments of government can share information with the new national data base
The London School of Economics has suggested the final bill to the hard pressed taxpayers of the United Kingdom could be in the order of £19 billion
Even worse can anyone have any confidence in the privacy of personal information held when it will be open to over 1/4 million civil servants to view ?
Can anyone recall any single major IT contract with government where the system does not regularly collapse or be compromised ?
Lets hope the House of Lords forces the full facts into the open in a way the House of Commons has failed to do so
Yours
Cllr Steve Radford
President of The LIberal Party
David Maher
Liberal Party National Executive
