Sentence examples for entitlement card from inspiring English sources

If the UK adopted an entitlement card system, it is possible that that perception would diminish over time". But the then home secretary, Jack Straw, was not impressed.

Last Sunday's Observer revealed that David Blunkett wanted to launch a national debate on the desirability of a national "entitlement card" system.

That would leave only about 16m people, who are neither drivers nor passport holders, who would be required to have what the government likes to call an "entitlement card".

The Home Office is looking to see if it would be legal to charge EU citizens who live in the UK for three months or more to purchase an entitlement card or ID card.

Earlier this year MPs on the Commons' home affairs select committee, after studying the immigration problems around the Channel tunnel, strongly backed the introduction of a voluntary entitlement card to supplement border controls and so tackle illegal migrants.

They argued that an entitlement card would be used to gain access to a range of public services, for example to get treatment in a hospital or welfare benefits or to borrow a library book.

People should have smart entitlement cards In France and Germany, everyone has a card entitling them to services.

On February 5th Mr Blunkett unveiled proposals for new "entitlement cards": ID cards in all but name.

More recently, we have been asked to believe that so-called "entitlement" cards are the solution to preventing illegal immigration.

Resurrected by David Blunkett as "entitlement cards", a consultation paper was published in July 2002, with six months of debate.

There can be little doubt that the government is seduced by the idea of "entitlement" cards as spin doctors now wish to call them.