§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many responses he has received to his consultation exercises on identity cards; and if he will make a statement. [131681]
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§ Beverley HughesThe consultation period on entitlement cards and identity fraud formally ended on 31 January 2003. We received a total of 4,942 individual responses from companies/organisations and from individual members of the public.
A further 5,031 responses from individual members of the public were sent in via the STAND website.
We have been carefully analysing all the responses received and are in the process of preparing a detailed summary of the responses, which we will be publishing. It is right that we take time to consider these thoroughly before making an announcement.