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by Jeff Albright » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:48 pm
All went quiet after Nov 2003 when Blankett announced his thoughts. Then a few days later Beverley speaking in Parliament dismissed it saying that there were no plans for it at all, only in the far future, "maybe" before the the compulsory ID cards are introduced, which is not earlier than 2008.
There was one hearing at Appeal Tribunal a few months ago where this programme had been referred to as an already existing one, which was surprising. The IND, however, openly denies to anyone on the phone that this programme exists.
So it is pretty sombre at the moment.
