Government scrapped compulsory ID-card plan
British citizens will never be forced to carry ID cards as Home Secretary Alan Johnson said that a trial scheme that was to force some airport staff to carry the controversial cards has been scrapped, the Daily Mail reports.
It means that carrying an ID card will now never be made compulsory for members of the general public.
Insisting that ID cards should be voluntary, Johnson said: “Holding an identity card should be a personal choice for British citizens – just as it is now to obtain a passport.”
However, foreign nationals in the UK will be the only group of people who will be forced to carry the cards.
The cost of the cards per person was given as £77 in 2004, then as £93 in July 2005. But research by the London School of Economics put it at a massive £230 a head, according to the newspaper.
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