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  Identity Cards Bill - Second Reading
  
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  <p>The Aye-voters agreed that the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/009/06009.i-iv.html"> Identity Cards Bill</a> should be "read a second time".  </p>  
  
  <p>This means it can now be sent to a Standing Committee, which is a small group of MPs who formally review the bill line by line, before it is returned to the main chamber for the "third reading" debate.  Once this is passed with a vote, it is reviewed by the House of Lords before it formally becomes an Act in law.  </p>
  
  <p>The timetable for this process is specified by the <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2005-06-28&number=21"> next vote</a>.  The <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2005-06-28&number=22"> following vote</a> after that is the "money resolution", which gives the formal authority to the government to spend the public necessary to carry out the functions of the act.  </p>
  
  
  I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p>I remind hon. Members that this Bill is based on the Bill that was read a Second time on 21 December 2004 and approved by this House on 10 February 2005, that the public debate started under my predecessor in 2002 and that the draft Bill was subject to six months' public consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny by the Home Affairs Committee in 2004. The Bill has been well debated.</p>
  
  <p><i>Question put,</i> That the Bill be now read a Second time:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 314, Noes 283.</p>
  
  
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