Well no sooner do I blog, than things happen (unless our proxy is really misbehaving).
First of all, I note that on Wednesday, in response to a question from “Mr Bailey” asking a question about when the analysis of the consultation on entitlement cards will be complete, Beverley Hughes from the Home Office responded that it would be “before the summer recess.”
This was on Wednesday.
Then on Thursday we get another response from Ms Hughes to a question from “Mr Wray” who asked a question about what information such a card will carry, whether it’ll be compulsory, and how it might affect civil liberties.
Hansard records her saying that they’d had over 4,000 individual responses, but it does not then break out who was pro- or anti- the idea.
The original BBC article (which has since been revised) said that the question had been from MP Anne McIntosh, so I’m still not reading the correct answer, which I find confusing.