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HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationI can confirm that the Government will not be doing any such thing.10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationChildcare is a great example. To claim a 20% reduction in childcare fees, people must log into the HMRC website every three months, calculate the figure for 80% of the fees, do…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationAs I said in my statement, if people want to use online services, they can log into some websites in some Departments independently, but they must log into each one differently,…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationWe are already in discussions with the European Commission on shared standards, primarily because in Northern Ireland, subject to the Good Friday agreement, members of the public…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationAs I have said to the House, I have been in touch with Ministers in the Scottish Government just this morning to extend an invitation to them to be part of this modernising…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationDigital ID is the premium option of one login. In many ways, one login is a great system, but it still has lots of challenges, not least because we cannot pull all these systems…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationThe hon. Lady is wrong. I look forward to bringing provisions in the Bill later this year to prove that case.10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationThe outcomes of the deliberative democracy process will form a legal part of the consultation, so it will feed into the consultation in the normal way. This is the first time that…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationMembers of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee know that I look forward to working with them and other Members on how we might legislate more innovatively through the…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationOn the question of mandation, I expect it will be on the front of the Bill coming to the House later this year that it is not mandatory. Should any Government in the future wish…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationIt is not for me to advise other Members on how to please their constituents, but if the hon. Gentleman asked his constituents, “Would you like better public services that are…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationMay I suggest some of the gospels that might be a little more uplifting for the hon. Gentleman to read, as opposed to the section on Armageddon at the end? I reassure him that the…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationI am happy to confirm that the digital ID scheme and its build in the gov.uk app will be built as a sovereign capability within Government and within the UK. It will not be…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationI thank my hon. Friend for her question; the Government look forward to working with her and her Select Committee as we develop these policies. She is absolutely right. We are…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationToday the Government are launching a national conversation on how we will build and use digital ID as the means to access public services digitally on a mobile phone or computer.…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationI enjoyed the hon. Member’s response to the statement, and I thank him for lifting our spirit with it. Let me say two things to him gently. First, I am very confident that,…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationI thank the hon. Lady and her colleagues for their engagement with the Government on this issue; we look forward to continuing to work with them on this. The good news is that on…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationMy hon. Friend is exactly right to call out the challenge of digital inclusion. We see in the private sector lots of services becoming digital but very little help for the public…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationThe consultation asks many questions about how we should build, implement and roll out this system. I am absolutely happy to tell the House that as of today, we do not know the…10 Mar 2026HANSARDDigital ID: Public ConsultationAny costs incurred so far have been purely for civil servants to pull together the consultation and for the Department to hold discussions and roundtables with stakeholders.…10 Mar 2026