MPs argue over ID card pricing

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Seventy per cent of biometric scheme costs to be spent anyway upgrading passports, says Home Office

The government is being accused of inflating the price of biometric passports to disguise the cost of its identity card scheme. The issue was raised in the Commons this week by Liberal Democrat...

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