Speeches by Jones.

“We have had a series of roundtables with different stakeholder groups. We have also been building the taskforce team that we host in the Cabinet Office. The stakeholders we have been talking to have been representatives of different views: people who are pro it and people who are currently against it; digital inclusion…”

“I am hoping that it will be next week. The actual day is moving around a little bit, but it should be next week.”

“There are a couple of reasons. First, I wanted it to not just be a technical consultation for companies that have an interest in this; I want to make sure that it is something that the public can engage in. If you did a very technical consultation, it probably would not be very user-friendly for the general public. I h…”

“The problem with that is that the One Login system works well, but you are still accessing different parts of Government with One Login. The idea with your digital ID and the gov.uk app is that those services come to you in one place, as opposed to you having to go to multiple places and log in repeatedly, if that make…”

“Good. That is great.”

“That is exactly right.”

“I do not have the number of users. This is something that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology runs for the Government, but as you have experienced, an increasing number of services are using the One Login system. It sounds from your experience that it was probably better than it would have been withou…”

“Sorry—yes, we are leading it.”

“No.”

“That is correct.”

“Step by step over time.”

“I often go to the passport system because the digital transformation of the passport system, and therefore the much better user experience that we all have, is a great example of its being done well. Those of us who served in the last Parliament know that the reason that happened is because the old system completely bl…”

“Yes, they will be able to use existing documentation, but the employer would have to go through the process digitally.”

“We will co-ordinate it in the centre of Government for sure, but we will need to think what is the best use case to get on to the app. What is the state of your current IT system and data? How complicated or not is this? We will have to put that into a business case and get Treasury approval for it, because you will ne…”

“We can probably integrate that very easily. Many local authorities are already using the Government One payment system, so you might be able to integrate payments depending on where they are at. Again, it will take time. In terms of who decides, my expectation is that it will be Government and Parliament, by which I me…”

“Not currently digitally—”

“On the first part of your question, it would be great to involve local government. We can probably already involve local government where it is useful information sharing like your postcode and bin collection day. Apparently, that is one of the most looked-for web pages on council websites.”

“The digital ID system will be a stand-alone system that we will build. The challenge that you have rightly alluded to is that when you are connecting up services to access through the app, because it is going to be a federated data system your ID on the app needs to be able to find you in the database that you are inte…”

“That is right.”

“I think that is right. As I say, we will provide materials for MPs to do things in their constituencies if that is useful. We will also do traditional media and digital marketing campaigns and those types of things while we go through the process. This goes to a slightly different part of my brief, but at the moment th…”