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Andy McCue
"The government's ID card plans have again come under fire after the London School of Economics (LSE) revealed the cost of the scheme could now rise to almost �30bn.
The LSE had initially claimed the ID card scheme would cost taxpayers up to �19bn - despite the Home Office maintaining the cost will be just £5.8bn over 10 years.
But in an as-yet-unpublished report the LSE is now claiming that could rocket by another £5bn to £10bn because of the cost of updating all government department IT systems in order to make them work with ID cards."
