英国的头的 ID卡片 在项目被缩小了之后，项目和民族性数据库在U字型转向的指控面前保卫了政府的修改过的ID卡片计划。

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詹姆斯·霍尔，身分的主任和护照服务(IPS)，告诉修改过的计划可能切开£1bn它的£5.4bn价牌的silicon.com，那个发电站工作者可能加入 机场工作者 并且奥林匹克保安人员作为第一个英国公民在线为卡片和那卡片也许使用证明身分在互联网。

But UK businesses remain critical, with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) fearing that companies could be liable if they provide inaccurate information to the National Identity Register and expressing unease over the security of the data that will be held on it.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis launched a further attack, citing the risk of a massive data breach on the system. He said: “It is something very dangerous the government are doing. We would cancel this database.”

It also emerged that employers of the “trusted workers” who will get the cards first, such as BAA, are likely to continue picking up the bill for pre-employment checks under the ID card system.

Hall said the decision to delay a Parliamentary vote on making ID cards compulsory for British citizens until 2015 was an example of the government “listening to people” and to the recommendations of a wider report into “identity assurance” by former banking chief Sir James Crosby.

He was confident that making the scheme voluntary from 2010 would increase the take-up of the £30 ID cards among the public.

Hall said: “We assume that we will get a very high level of take-up, more than with the previous arrangement by tying the take-up to passport renewal. We are taking a benefit-led approach. The consumer will be able to choose whether they want to have an ID card or a passport. We will enable people with cards to quickly and easily access public services.”

Biometric data for the cards is likely to be captured by private companies with people paying for the service.

Hall insisted that the changes were not what prompted Accenture, BAE Systems and more recently Steria to pull out of the procurement process to build the ID card computer system, describing the remaining bidders as “incredibly positive”.

He added that security and Criminal Records Bureau checks carried out with ID cards would be far quicker and easier for the employer and employees.

Hall said that cards could later be used to confirm identity online using a PIN stored on the card.

Anyone renewing or applying for a new passport from 2011 onwards will be required to add their biometric details to the National Identity Register but they won’t now be forced to pay for a physical ID card and can instead choose to just use their passport.

Foreign nationals living in Britain will have to register their biometric details on the National Identity Register and carry an ID card by the end of this year.

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