Identity Cards: Digital Technology

(asked on 18th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy not to introduce ID cards.


Answered by
Josh Simons Portrait
Josh Simons
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 9th January 2026

On 26 September 2025, the Prime Minister announced plans for free digital ID to be available to all UK citizens and legal residents. This is not an ID card.

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