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 Parliamentary Briefings - In Action
David Davis
David Davis
Graham Allen
Graham Allen 

 

ePolitix.com's Stakeholder Parliamentary Briefings offer organisations a chance to communicate their message to MPs and Peers on specific Bills.

 

 

 

 

In Parliament

 

The Briefings have already received a great response from the House,the ID Cards Briefing was used by 4 MPs in the actual debate, with David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, directly quoting 2 stakeholder positions:

 

"There was a time when Labour Governments were elected to fight poverty, but the cost of ID cards will only make people poorer. There was a time when they tried to pursue fairness, but as the GMB trade union says, ID cards will discriminate against and stigmatise minority and disabled groups. There was a time when the Labour party stood up for people's freedoms."

 

"One group, which knows far more about these things than our famously technophobic Prime Minister, said: "This will undoubtedly be a large and centralised system as currently outlined in the bill, and this type of system attracts a high risk of failure." That was the British Computer Society, which I suspect knows rather better than others what it is talking about."

 

 

Published: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:37:00 GMT+01