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Home Office

Reverse state interference to ensure there is not disproportionate intrusion into people’s lives

	Start	End	Status
5.1 Scrap ID cards and the National Identity Register
5.1.i. Shut down the issuance of new cards and halt work to incorporate fingerprint information on passports			Completed
5.1.ii. Introduce an Identity Documents Bill to scrap ID cards and the National Identity Register			Completed

	Start	End	Status
5.2 Review counter-terrorism and security legislation and implement recommendations to ensure it is necessary, effective and proportionate
5.2.i. Undertake and publish a review of counter-terrorism and security legislation, working with the Department for Communities and Local Government on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act		Dec 2010	Completed
5.2.ii. Pass legislation in relation to Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs)	Jan 2011	Dec 2011	Completed
5.2.iii. Pass legislation through the Protection of Freedoms Bill on other key recommendations in relation to pre-charge detention, stop and search powers and local authority use of surveillance powers		Mar 2012	Completed

	Start	End	Status
5.3 End the storage of internet and email records without good reason
5.3.i. Develop and publish proposals for the storage and acquisition of internet and e-mail records		Apr 2012	In progress
5.3.ii. Implement key proposals for the storage and acquisition of internet and email records, including introducing legislation as necessary	Dec 2010	Jun 2015	In progress

	Start	End	Status
5.4. In line with the Red Tape Challenge, bring forward proposals to reduce and reform the stock of statutory instruments and regulations for which the Department has overall responsibility		Dec 2012	In progress

	Start	End	Status
5.5 Introduce a Freedom Bill
5.5.i. Introduce a Freedom Bill to reverse state intrusion, including:	Feb 2011	Feb 2011	Completed
5.5.i.a. Further regulating CCTV			Completed
5.5.i.b. Outlawing finger-printing of children at school without parental permission, working with the Department for Education			Completed
5.5.i.c. Changing criminal record checks and the Vetting and Barring Scheme, including ensuring that historical convictions for consensual gay sex with over-16s will be treated as spent and will not show up on criminal record checks			Completed
5.5.i.d. Adopting the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database and publishing guidance on the application of rights to remove DNA from the database			Completed
5.5.i.e. Tackling rogue private sector wheel clampers by prohibiting the wheel clamping or towing away of vehicles on private land			Completed
5.5.ii. Subject to Parliamentary approval, secure passage of the Protection of Freedoms Bill to reverse state intrusion		May 2012	In progress
5.5.iii. Consult on proposals on new CCTV Code of Practice		May 2011	Completed
5.5.iv. Analyse consultation responses	Jun 2011	Sept 2011	Completed
5.5.v. Integrate responses to consultation into development of Code of Practice	Dec 2011	Dec 2012	Yet to start

	Start	End	Status
5.6 Review the operation of the Extradition Act – and the US/UK extradition treaty – to make sure that it is even-handed
5.6.i. Appoint an independent panel to take evidence		Apr 2011	Completed
5.6.ii. Panel to invite and consider evidence		May 2011	Completed
5.6.iii. Extradition panel develops final report	May 2011	Sept 2011	Completed