To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, columns 296-97W, on the National Identity Card Scheme Strategic Suppliers Group, how many of the eight shortlisted suppliers for the National Identity Card Scheme signed a non-disclosure agreement; and whether the provisions of the agreement signed by each were identical. (252607)

A condition of bidding for the Strategic Supplier Group framework was signature of a non-disclosure agreement in an unmodified form. All bidders complied with this condition.