Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications for employers and workers of the removal of the mandatory element from their plans for digital identification.

The national digital ID will not be mandatory for individuals to obtain. However, digital right to work checks will be mandatory by the end of the Parliament

Currently, for British and Irish citizens, many right to work checks are paper based. This is vulnerable to fraud and does not create a clear record of when and where checks have been carried out

The digital ID will provide a modern, secure and trusted way for people to prove who they are and access services across the public and private sectors

We will issue the new digital ID, for free, to everybody who wants one and has the right to be in the UK, including the around 10% of UK citizens without traditional forms of ID

We will be consulting imminently - in a range of ways – to ensure the introduction of Digital ID is as effective and inclusive as possible.