PRESS RELEASE
- To:
- Home Office
- OIG (re US-VISIT)
- IDABC (re OSCIE)
- Agencies
Is the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) out of control?
8 March 2007
Business Consultancy Services Ltd (BCSL) publishes its
ninth ID card strategy document for the present Home Secretary
- ePassports
- Question: how much do IPS think that ePassports will cost the UK?
Is it (a) between £100m and £344m, or (b) could they save
us £2bn, or (c) will they save us only £89m or (d) will
they actually cost us £98m?
Answer: if you chose any of the options above, you're wrong. Because
according to the National Audit Office report on the implementation of
ePassports, IPS have at one time or another thought that they were all
right.
- ID cards
- Question: when IPS gave the House of Commons Science and Technology
Committee a breakdown of the estimated cost of the ID cards scheme (£5.8bn
at the time), how many figures did they provide?
Answer: none.
There's more at http://DematerialisedID.com/Open2.html,
if you can face it.
About Business
Consultancy Services Ltd (BCSL):
BCSL has operated as an IT consultancy since 1984. The past four years
have been spent investigating mobile phone-based identity management.
Press contacts: David Moss, BrotherBig@DematerialisedID.com
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