Question follow-through · 101421
Identity Cards: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether children and young people will be required to hold an ID card if they work.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether children and young people will be required to hold an ID card if they work.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2026
Answer published
On 26 September 2025, the Prime Minister announced plans for free digital ID to be available to all UK citizens and legal residents. This is not an ID card.The scope of the digital ID scheme is still in development and we are inviting the public to have t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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