Home Office trying to persuade unions to drop opposition to ID cards Minister pledges there will be no delays to £4.7bn identity cards programme / The Guardian, 30 October 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/20/idcards
"The Home Office is in active talks with trade unions in an attempt to persuade them to abandon opposition to the imminent introduction of compulsory ID cards for airport workers. Meg Hillier, the minister in charge of ID cards and passports, today promised there would be no delays to the £4.7bn programme despite the threat of a UK economic recession."