Question follow-through · 84966
Identity Cards: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report entitled BritCard: A progressive digital identity for Britain, published June 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report entitled BritCard: A progressive digital identity for Britain, published June 2025.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
The recently announced digital ID scheme is not called a BritCard and is not based on the report mentioned.The government appreciates the role of think tanks in publishing research on potential government policy.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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