Cabinet office minister Pat macfaden Has suggested A digital ID card for every Britain Can help compete Illegal immigration and profit fraud,
The Labor MP for the Wolverhampton South East said that the UK was technically “behind the curve and can implement a system similar to the Baltic State Estonia, where its Citizens are given a unique identity number.
It allows Estonians Register birth, marriage, divorce, death, vote, book GP appointments and reach their bank accounts.
In an interview with Many timesThe senior government minister said that the Britain was currently asked to prove its identity through a “plurality of paper-based documents”, but a digital ID could improve access to services.
The issue of national identity cards was first raised by New Labor and made the champion by Tony Blair, before the controversial policy was out of side by the time of losing from the 2010 election.
Mr. McFaden suggested that the ID scheme can be used to deal with the use of the ID scheme Increase in small boat crossing And to compete with profit fraud because people have to prove who they were before taking employment.
France has earlier argued that asylum seekers Despite not being allowed to enter the UK, due to their ability to find work in the informal economy, their ability to find work in the informal economy, is attracted to the UK.
“People should not be able to come to the UK and work illegally if they do not have the right to the work given by them. Many times“France has talked about bridge factors in the context of migration debates. If such a bridge factor is, we should deal with them.
“I think there are applications of digital ID for immigration systems, for profit system, in many areas, which can show that we are interested in proper verification of people’s identity, that people who exercise rights are people who deserve rights, and have a good value for money for money.”
“At the moment, you are to do so, but there is no mechanism for you to do so. This can be done, as I say, through many different types of documents.”
Mr. McFaden suggested that the discussion on the ID card has gone from 15 to 20 years ago, because “the capacity of what we do through the smartphone has changed in an unfamiliar way.”
One was basically looking into a “Britcard”, which was stored on a smartphone, which would be linked to government records and, according to this, the profit and welfare could check the entitlement to monitor the fraud. Many times In June.
The proposal for digital ID was supported simultaneously by the think tank labor, which includes no 10 Chief of Staff Morgan McSwini.
Former Mi6 Boss Sir Alex Younger Call for digital ID card To help prevent small boat crossings in July, telling BBC Newsnight: “It is absolutely clear to me that people must have a digital identity.”