Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans his Department has to review the requirement for holographic ID for the purchase of alcohol.

The Home Office has no plans to review the requirement for a holographic mark or an ultra-violet feature on identification used for the purchase of alcohol. In due course, the mandatory licensing condition that includes this requirement will need to be amended to allow the use of digital forms of identification. However, at present there are no industry standards on which to base such an amendment.