Digital ID cards could help solve the small boats crisis, says Pat McFadden
Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden proposed a digital identity card because each Briton could help with illegal migration and fraud.
Wolverhampton South East Labor Deputy said that England is technologically behind the curve ve and that Estonia, where its citizens have a unique identity number, could implement a system similar to the Baltic state.
This allows Estonians to register their births, marriages, divorces, deaths, votes, book GP appointments and access bank accounts.
In an interview TimesSenior Minister of Government, currently said that the British are asked to prove their identities through a numerous paper -based document, but a digital identity could improve access to services.
The issue of national identity cards was first brought to the agenda by New Labor, and the controversial policy was defended by Tony Blair before falling in favor of the controversial policy when the party lost its elections.
Mr. McFadden claimed that the identity scheme can be used to cope. To increase in small boat transitions and to prove who they are before they get jobs, to fight with the fraud.
France previously argued that although asylum seekers were not allowed to work at the UK, they were withdrawn to England because of their ability to find jobs in the unregistered economy or the service industry with package service or service industry.
“People should not work illegally if they do not have the right to come to England and work. Times. “France spoke about the drawing factors in the context of the debate on migration. If there are such draw factors, we should deal with them.
“I think digital identity, immigration system, benefit system, people who are interested in the correct verification of the identity, people who use the rights are entitled to rights, and I think there is a good value for the money for the taxpayer.”
“You want to do this right now, but there is no single mechanism to do this. As I said, it can be done through a series of documents of different species.”
Mr. McFadden suggested that the debate about identity cards continued since then 15 to 20 years ago, because “the work capacity we did through smartphones has changed in an unrecognized way.”
No 10 was looking at a “Britcard, at the beginning, hiding on a smartphone, which would be linked to state records and could control the rights of benefits and monitor prosperity fraud Times In June.
The digital identity proposal was approved by Think Tank Laboratule Together, including 10 Chief of General Staff Morgan Mcsweeney.
Former MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger also supported the calls of digital identity cards to help deterd their small boat crossings in July, and told BBC Newsnight: “It is certain that people should have digital identity.”
