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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"It is, as always, a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I thank the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross-shire (Pete Wishart) for his speech. It was a very good speech, but suffered from the big disadvantage of none of it being actually accurate in terms of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"A full consultation will be launched by the end of this year. There are two options that the Government could have taken. We could have started from the position of a fully fledged programme, a fully fledged policy, and then taken that out to consultation; or we could take the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"Let me make some progress and I will give way. I want to read Members this paragraph:

“We will develop and establish a trusted and secure service for users to prove who they are, and that they are eligible for a service. Users will be able to store their information …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"Let me finish the first point. There will be available a system that is non-digital for people to use in those particular circumstances. In terms of the way the law works now, it is illegal for an employer to employ someone who does not have the right to work in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"No, it is not. I cannot remember which hon. Gentleman made the point about over-75s not being digitally excluded. I do not know many over-75s who are looking for work, so if they do not want to have this, they do not need to have it. And for people who …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"This is about reconnecting citizens with Government. Everyone will have constituents coming to every one of their surgeries with a form they cannot fill out, a piece of maladministration in public services, something they cannot access or a difficulty in getting access to benefits. There are still people in this …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"I do not have time.

The system brings out affirmative or otherwise information in relation to the specific information that the system requires. Having one central database is the wrong approach; there would be security issues. The dataset is federated, and does not move from the home Departments. The system …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"Of course it is a consultation. It is about how we get this right, what it looks like, how it is built, how federated data is secured, how we deal with digital inclusion and how we deal with the issues in Northern Ireland. That is what the consultation is about. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Mandatory Digital ID

"Let me address that point directly. I have already been to Northern Ireland and spoken to all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive, and I have also been to the Republic to speak to the Irish Government about the processes that they have. In fact, they are about to introduce …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"There is no specific duty on owners to keep their buildings in a good state of repair, but local authorities have powers under legislation to take action where a listed building may be at risk, through urgent works notices and repairs notices. The Government also support local authorities by providing …..."
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