Nick Gibb MP

Nick Gibb MP (Conservative) for Bognor Regis & Littlehampton. Shadow minister for schools.

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Has met with Pippa King, a lead campaigner against school fingerprinting, and David Clouter, who runs the group Leave Them Kids Alone, also present where Lib Dem MP Sarah Teather and Labour MP Tom Watson.

17th October 2006 Teachers TV The Conservatives say that regardless of parental consent they will ban fingerprinting children if they get elected. "They should not be doing this," Gibb said of fingerprinting schools. "They should find another method of identification for borrowing library books." He said there were serious civil liberties issues about a government that amassed databases of people's fingerprints.

News

2007-01-20 - The Register - MPs investigate school fingerprinting
Author: Mark Ballard
Summary: Opposition MPs have begun investigating the use of biometric scanners in UK schools and the use of funds that might otherwise be spent buying books and learning materials to buy the systems. ... Parents who have been campaigning against their children being fingerprinted at school without their consent met yesterday with Sarah Teather and Nick Gibb, the Conservative shadow minister for schools. A Conservative spokeswoman said Gibb was writing about his concerns over school fingerprinting to schools Minister Jim Knight. Gibb asked the government if it knew how many schools were collecting their pupils' fingerprints, whether fingerprint scanners could be bought with e-Learning credits, and what advice the DfES was giving schools about the security of data they kept about children.
2007-01-12 - The Register - UK to review school fingerprinting
Author: Mark Ballard
Summary: The Department for Education and Skills is to reconsider the fingerprinting of school children after a four year campaign by parents. ... Pippa King, a lead campaigner against school fingerprinting, and David Clouter, who runs the group Leave Them Kids Alone, have meetings scheduled next week with the Libdem MP Sarah Teather, Conservative MP Nick Gibb and Labour MP Tom Watson.
2006-10-17 - The Register - MPs condemn school fingerprinting
Author: Mark Ballard
Summary: Shadow ministers for the Libdems and Conservatives have condemned schools that fingerprint children. ... "They should not be doing this," Gibb said of fingerprinting schools. "They should find another method of identification for borrowing library books." He said there were serious civil liberties issues about a government that amassed databases of people's fingerprints.
2006-10-13 - Teacher's TV News - Fingerprinting Children in Schools
Summary: (Second item in news bulletin) John Draper reports from Cumbria where a group of parents is preparing to take court action over the issue of fingerprinting children in schools. Their solicitor says using pupils fingerprints to track library books is an infringement of their human rights and is seeking an injunction. Nick Gibb MP (Conservative Shadow Minister For Schools) and Sarah Teather MP (Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Education) condemn school biometrics.

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