What are the benefits of the National Identity Scheme?
Some facts and figures
Identity fraud has cost the UK over £1.7 billion.
Source: an exercise by the Home Office Identity Fraud Steering Committee
(IFSC)
to update the Cabinet Office estimate of the cost to the economy of identity
fraud. Announced by Andy Burnham, Home Office, February 2006. Download
the relevant table as a pdf (80 KB, new window.
