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» Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Cabinet

Asked what was covered at Cabinet this morning, the PMS replied that Cabinet had a discussion of data management issue in light of the events of last week with contributions from Alistair Darling and Gus O’Donnell on the review that he was conducting. There was also a general discussion around where we were on counter-terrorism and security matters.

Asked if ID cards came up, the PMS replied that it was a wide-ranging discussion. But the Prime Minister’s position on ID cards was that ID cards were an important way of protecting people’s identity.

Asked if ID cards and the database that went with it were on track, or would they be delayed now, the PMS replied that you could make the opposite argument. You could argue that in a world where lots of private sector organisations had lots of information about individuals and therefore there was the potential for data fraud, this strengthened the argument for ID cards as it enabled people to protect their own identity because they were biometric.

Asked if 28 day detention was discussed at Cabinet, the PMS replied that he did not want to get into the specifics of exactly what was discussed, except to say that it was a wide ranging discussion on counter-terrorism and security matters.

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