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Mr. Luff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received about a national identity card scheme; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jack
Some 27 individual letters have been received from Members of Parliament and others so far this year. None has persuaded me that the advantages of such a scheme outweigh the disadvantages.