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The A to Z of ID cards

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Tags: ips, passport, home office

By Nick Heath

Published: 15 April 2009 15:31 GMT

I is for Identity and Passport Service

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) was created to bring together the Home Office ID cards programme and the UK Passport Service to issue passports and ID cards.

The agency is spending £280m setting up the ID cards scheme and £4.5bn running the scheme and providing both ID cards and ePassports to the public until 2018.

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