Will ID cards disappear like the discs?

The loss by HM Revenue and Customs of personal information belonging to every family and child in Keighley and Ilkley is still the cause of much concern for local residents.

The last census, carried out in 2001, revealed that there were 25,986 families and 21,520 dependent children living in the Keighley Parliamentary constituency and this number will have risen significantly since then.

Every one of these families and their children has had their security compromised by the loss of this data and many will understandably not rest easy until it is recovered.

Surely this catastrophe – since followed by several others including the loss of the details of three million learner drivers - will finally spell the end of the Government’s ill-advised national identity card scheme.

Won’t it?!