Keir Starmer's 'dystopian' digital ID card scheme to cost £1.8BILLION over next three years
The roll out of Labour's digital ID scheme is set to cost £1.8billion
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The roll out of Labour's planned digital ID cards is set to cost £1.8billion over the next three years, it has been revealed.
The Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) report, released early in what it branded a "technical error", has unveiled the cost of the controversial ID scheme for the first time.
It reads: "The implementation of digital ID cards is provisionally forecast to cost £1.8billion in total over the next three years, split across £0.5billion RDEL (resource spending) and £1.3billion CDEL (capital spending).
"The Government has announced its intention to meet the costs of this through existing DEL budgets, however no specific savings have yet been identified."
Tory MP, David Davis, slammed it as an "egregious waste of the public's money".
The Goole and Pocklington MP wrote to X: "Labour plan to press ahead with its dystopian and dangerous mandatory digital ID plan.
"The OBR’s leaked forecasts show that will cost £1.8billion over the next three years.
"This is an egregious waste of the public's money and a figure that will likely balloon in the future."
Reform's head of policy, Zia Yusuf, accused Labour of diverting money away from "sorting out the border crisis" to fund the scheme.
"Wow: Labour is going to spend £1.8billion on Digital ID! And it is coming out of the Home Office budget, which is still being cut in real terms," he wrote to X.
"Labour is literally diverting money away from sorting out the border crisis to taking away British people’s liberty."
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