§ Sir E. Makinsasked the Minister of Health whether he will consider issuing identity cards of another colour to all young people between 16 and 18 years of age or, alternatively, extending the present child's identity card up to the age of 18, such cards to be produced on demand by a publican or the police.
§ Mr. WillinkThe identity card issued to a person over 16 and under 21 years of age bears a code letter "B" indicating that age-group, together with the year and quarter of the year of the holder's birth as recorded in the National Register. This provision would apparently serve the purposes which my hon. and gallant Friend has in mind. The annual re-issue of new cards to young persons on attaining 18 as well as on attaining 16 years of age would add materially to the administrative burdens of local offices; and it would be by no means easy to secure the necessary attendances 403W to render such an exchange even approximately complete.