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  Identity Cards Bill - Report of Costs and Benefits - rejected
  
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  The majority of MPs voted to take out[1] a provision inserted by the House of Lords[2] into the Identity Cards Bill which said:[3]
  
  :Before the Identity Cards laws can be enforced, the Government must publish a detailed report stating all the costs of the system since 2004 and a cost estimate by year for the next ten years, and a statement of the expected benefits of the system.
  
  The minister argued that making these costs available "would be prejudicial to securing the best value from the use of public money".[4]
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2006-02-13b.1203.0#g1203.3 Andy Burnham MP], House of Commons, 13 February 2006
  * [2] [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2006-01-16&number=1&house=lords Identity Cards Bill - Report of Costs and Benefits], House of Lords, 16 January 2006
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldbills/028/06028.1-7.html#j001  Commencement: Report on costs and benefits], Identity Cards Bill, Clause 44
  * [4] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2006-02-13b.1203.0#g1210.0 Andy Burnham MP], House of Commons, 13 February 2006
  
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