Fraud prevention

Headquarters

Parliamentary & Correspondence Management Team

8^th Floor, Globe House

89 Eccleston Square

London

SW1V 1PN

Tel (0300) 222 0000

Fax (0870) 336 9175

Email [Identity & Passport Service request email]

Web www.ips.gov.uk

Dr Geraint Bevan

Email: [FOI #4801 email]

Reference: FOICR 10805/08

Date: 29 December 2008

Dear Dr Bevan,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your email of 15 December in which you ask for information
on the National Identity Scheme.

I am pleased to be able to disclose the information that you have
requested.

Please tell me:

1) The Home Office's estimate for the value of identity fraud

prevented by ID cards so far (if possible, broken down by type);

2) The basis for any estimate; and

3) whether the figures have been approved by the Office of National

Statistics.

There is no estimate available of the value of identity fraud prevented by
identity cards so far. However, identity cards that have now started to be
introduced for foreign nationals are already proving successful. For
example, an individual who applied for a foreign national's identity card
with false identity details was detained following recording of
fingerprint biometrics at the Solihull identity card enrolment centre on
its first day of operation. The individual was charged with the offence of
seeking leave to remain in the United Kingdom by deception and appeared
before Solihull Magistrates on 9th December where he pleaded guilty and
will be sentenced in January.

However if you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an
independent internal review of any aspect of our handling of your
application by submitting your complaint to the address below and quoting
reference number 10805/08

Information Rights Team
Information and Record Management Service
Home Office
4th Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Email: [1][email address]

During the internal review the department's handling of your information
request will be reassessed by members of staff who were not involved in
providing you with this response.

Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a
right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by
section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

In keeping with the spirit and effect of the Freedom of Information Act,
all information is assumed to be releasable to the public unless exempt.
The department therefore, will be simultaneously releasing to the public
the information you requested together with any related information that
will provide a key to its wider context.

Yours faithfully,

On behalf of James Hall, Chief Executive and Registrar General

Identity and Passport Service

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Dear Dr Bevan,

Thank you for your email of 2 January. I apologise for the delay in
responding to you which was caused by an administrative error. Please see
attached response.

Yours faithfully

On behalf of James Hall, Chief Executive and Registrar General
Identity and Passport Service

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Dear Dr Bevan,

Thank you for your email of 3 January. I apologise for the delay in
responding to you which was caused by an administrative error. Please see
attached response.

Yours faithfully

On behalf of James Hall, Chief Executive and Registrar General
Identity and Passport Service

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