Effective ID cards

sir – Like Tristram C Llewellyn Jones (Letters, November 22), I don’t trust the Government with my data. However, between the Department for Work and Pensions, HMRC, the NHS, the DVLA and the Passport Office, it already has this data. I would like a digital ID card with all that information on it, suitably encrypted, and with me controlling who has access to it.

John A Landamore

Upper Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire

sir – Regarding ID cards, please spare a thought for the oldies.

As my mother approached her 90th year, she stopped travelling and didn’t renew her passport. Then she surrendered her driving licence.

How, then, to prove her identity? Margaret Winterton Queniborough, Leicestershire

sir – The main reason there is no point in Britain having ID cards is that nothing would happen to the people who hadn’t got them. The whole exercise would just be another giant waste of taxpayers’ money.

Richard Curry

Maidenhead, Berkshire