Baroness Carnegy of Lour (Conservative) Peer

Issues

Children's Digital Rights

House of Lords debate Schools: Biometric Data 19 March 2007

My Lords, the Minister usually displays a great understanding and sympathy of what it is to be a child. Is he not concerned about the impression that children will get of what it is to live in a free country and what it is to be British if, in order to get the right school meals and other things, they can have their fingerprints taken? That seems completely astonishing to me. I suggest that the Government think hard about this and change their minds.