Geen studentenlening zonder de kaart van identiteitskaart, zegt overheid

Anthea Lipsett
EducationGuardian.co.uk

De studenten zullen „gechanteerd worden“ in de kaarten van de holdingsidentiteit studentenleningen aan te vragen, hebben de Tory gewaarschuwd.

Volgens de documenten van het Bureau van het Huis die aan de Conservatieve partij vorge nacht worden gelekt, zullen van toepassing zijn die die voor studentenleningen worden gedwongen om identiteitskaarten te houden om de financiering vanaf 2010 te krijgen.

Iedereen op de leeftijd van 16 of ouder zal worden verwacht om een kaart - kostprijsberekening tot £100 te verkrijgen - om een bankrekening te openen of voor een studentenlening van toepassing te zijn.

Het document zegt: “We should issue ID cards to young people to assist them as they open their first bank account, take out a student loan, etc.”

The government had planned to start issuing the ID cards to people applying for a passport from 2010, but confidential documents confirm that the scheme will be delayed to at least 2012.

The biometric cards are due to be introduced for foreign nationals later this year, with the first expected to be issued to UK citizens on a voluntary basis from 2009.

From next year, they will also be issued to people in “positions of trust” such as airport workers.

The revelations have led to concerns that the government is planning to collect the fingerprints and other biometric details of more than two million young people entering higher education each year by stealth.

Shadow immigration minister Damian Green called the plans “straightforward blackmail” to bolster “a failing policy”.

“This is an outrageous plan. The government has seen its ID cards proposals stagger from shambles to shambles. They are clearly trying to introduce them by stealth.”

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