Sunday, January 08, 2006

No identity card? You could be fined £2,500 / Sunday Telegraph, 8 Jan 2006

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Melissa Kite
"Town hall bureaucrats are to be given sweeping new powers to investigate homes for identity card evasion and to impose heavy fines on occupants found without one.
The revelation, in an obscure Whitehall consultation paper, calls into serious doubt the Government's repeated promises that planned ID cards, already hugely controversial, will be voluntary and that no one will be forced to carry one."