The production and management of the UK's identity card scheme will ensure the best level of security, according to one Home Office, minister.
Meg Hillier, the minister in charge of the project, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme today that the companies handling the data involved in the implementation of identity cards will be selected based on their ability to act securely and responsibly.
"I am making sure, along with colleagues, that we are looking very closely at how we cannot just make sure that it's a very secure system, but reassure people that it is as well," she said.
She added that the British public could be assured that fingerprints and personal data would be held on different databases to ensure that without the valid fingerprint, the information could not be accessed.
In August last year, the government began the procurement process for the initiative by publishing a notice inviting interested parties in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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