| The Government has
accepted recommendations that citizens’ contact details stored on the
National Identity Register (the database associated with the ID card)
should become the sole source of this information, to be updated and
used for general administrative purposes by local and central government
services.
The objective is to reduce the burden on individuals and
public-service organisations of maintaining basic contact information.
The recommendations have been made by the Board of the Citizen
Information Project (CIP). The CIP was led by the UK’s Office for
National Statistics, with involvement from representatives of HM
Treasury, the Home Office Identity Cards Programme and other government
departments including the Department of Health.
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