Identity Cards

HC Deb 14 March 1996 vol 273 c708W

5. Mr. Renton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received in favour of the introduction of a compulsory British identity card. [18986]

Mr. Howard

Of over 3,000 responses we received to the Green Paper on identity cards, 1,700 were in favour of the introduction of an identity card and of these 800 favoured a compulsory card.