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...include a number of Lib Dem manifesto promises such as scrapping the identity card and biometric passport s...aved in public administration. Cancelling unpopular projects such as identity cards is a one-off win, like an ass...
Labour - Policy implementation
...In policing, introduce more online crime maps and ‘report cards’ to allow the public to mo...d push forward London’s Crossrail project.- Pursue the ID cards scheme and the national identity database: home secretary A...
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...ssary. Instead, he argues, the government could focus on collecting the billions of pounds of uncollected and avoided taxes, cancel Trident or identity cards.Labour are not completely imm...
Are consultancies set to feel the squeeze?
...eport to major programmes in “security and counter terrorism and identity management”. Take the H...servatives have sworn to abandon projects such as Contact Point and ID cards; both big contributors to the...
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Lib Dems plan for spending cuts
...taff earning over £100,000.Tapering the family element of the tax credit would save £1.35bn, said the party, while IT projects including the identity cards scheme, the NHS IT programme...
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...n the civil service’s sense of common purpose, foster its collective identity and facilitate cross-departme...he fact that both Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone are notorious wild cards, famous for embarrassing and...
...just advise from a distance”. Identity assuranceAnother obstacle to...e the sole SRO for government’s identity assurance (IDA) programme –...ing itself from the spectre of ID cards. As well as doing “great wo...y, from a tough position after ID cards [when] they were quite a long...
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All aboard for a new way of training
...amp;D) have known that major change is on the cards: long before the change of gover...til a stronger sense of collective, corporate identity. And it’s made a huge contr...urses is likely to change just as much as the identity of the providers: with the...
...t of high street transactions now take place on credit and debit cards which rely on a functioning comm...ny Unisys, says the coalition’s decision to scrap the National Identity Card and National Identity Register without an altern...
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Every adult applying for their first passport now has to attend an interview with the Identity and Passport Service, to be questioned about their background. Stuart Watson turns the tables on IPS chief executive Sarah Rapson. As the coalition took power last spring, it promised that its first it...
Tags: identity cards, passports and visas, passport service, identification technology, biometrics
Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat spokeswoman on Cabinet Office matters, doesn’t have an answer to my initial question: what are her party’s plans for the civil service? The question is “kind of vague”, she says. It is – but her answer is also vague and, by the end of the interview, i...
Tags: redundancy rules, public administration, economic growth, standards in public life, child support, identity cards, councillors, victim support, public sector finances, pensions, nat...