The British governnment is continuing its push to ensure that every UK citizen will be required too carry the new ID card in the very near future. Opposition to the card has virtually collapsed in the wake of the London bombings.

The new card will carry a biometric scan of every individuals facial features, which will be placed on a national database, that can be matched with images accessible to police and security services from the 4 million CCTV cameras currently active in Britain. Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, has said that the "facial images national database should be operational by December 2006"