James Button

London

Consultant

A problem for the surgically fixed grin PR and politician types!

And what about the poor bosses of the companies getting the passport and id card contracts.

Will it be possible to wipe the smile off of their pusses.

(That is without prosecuting them for the bad data and poor user interfaces in such facilities as:
DVLC, Pensions, Pensions/working TaxCredits, Inland Revenue, CSA!

As every UK citizen should have a NI number - assigned so they can get health services as a baby, child, and/or adult - and more importantly pay their National Insurance charges. And, the TV Licensing authority know all the addresses in the UK, why don't the government departments have a unique ID and a location for each person in the country - NI, or foreign passport/id card id and a postal address) to match?