http://www.bjhc.co.uk/news/1/2006/n606003.htm
"The Government has accepted recommendations that citizens’ contact details stored on the National Identity Register (the database associated with the ID card) should become the sole source of this information, to be updated and used for general administrative purposes by local and central government services. The objective is to reduce the burden on individuals and public-service organisations of maintaining basic contact information. The recommendations have been made by the Board of the Citizen Information Project (CIP). The CIP was led by the UK’s Office for National Statistics, with involvement from representatives of HM Treasury, the Home Office Identity Cards Programme and other government departments including the Department of Health." [Brief]
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