http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/10/id_scheme_consultant_elves/
John Lettice
"As the programme proceeds it will be subject to regular Office of Government Commerce Gateway reviews,' which we hazard translates as PA supervising testing of whether the scheme can actually work, and possibly also ('business case') figuring out a half-plausible justification for it. Some data from the development phase so far must undoubtedly exist, but neither this nor the Gateway review data is in the public domain. There have been Freedom of Information Act requests for the Gateway data (notably by Spy Blog, which is monitoring progress on a number of FOIA requests), but the Home Office is likely to resist disclosures, and Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer has reportedly ruled out the release of legal advice related to the ID scheme."
