ID card numbers again
Well, it didn’t take that 5.6 billion pound figure to be revealed as horseshit. With a speed of change that surprised even me, we find:
The report says that the latest estimate excludes the cost of the ID project to other government departments outside the Home Office, including card scanners for GPs registering new patients.
The report to parliament admits that the estimate is likely to change, especially as the tendering process, with eight private sector firms bidding to run the scheme, has just started.
I think, however, we can be confident that the final cost of the ID card scheme will be in the region of ’some pounds’.
You know you, right? Your public servants think you’re a bloody idiot. Run and get your chequebook. Go on, chop chop.
Posted on November 9th, 2007 at 8:37 am
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Walking through Victoria yesterday I noticed the Passport office has now been signed as the Identity and Passport office. The creep begins.
I’m half tempted to come back to the septic isle just to chain myself to railings and fight against this idiocy. Financial cost is the least of my worries (although with those figures, perhaps it shouldn’t be).
Was it only the existence of the USSR next door that kept us from doing this earlier? Can we have it back, please?
Financial cost is the least of my worries
Same here, Richard, but I imagine hammering on about how much it’s going to cost Joe Public is a useful line of attack considering how willing he’s been so far to hand his civil liberties back.
Those readers for GP offices, right? Would they be the ones costed in the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill Regulatory Impact Assessment (Annex A, page 42) as costing:
Reader: £3000-£5000 (each reader)
PC for reader: £1000 (each reader)
plus £21,000 for cabling at each location (derived from a estimate of £1 million for 47 airports and ports).
or are they instead the (presumably entirely different) ones costed in the Identity Cards Bill Regulatory Impact Assessment published 29 May 2005, a snip at £250 each?
Yes; it’s impossible to use anything but a dedicated PC for the reader, and all PCs cost at least one thousand pounds.
Don’t give it away, man!