§ Rev. Martin Smythasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which member countries of the EEC at present have a system of national identity cards; and if he will publish in the Official Report a list of these countries and the year in which they first adopted an identity card system.
§ Mr. RentonNational identity cards are in use in Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy and Luxembourg. Information as to the date from which national identity cards were first adopted in these countries is not readily available. I will however obtain it and write to the hon. Member.