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BBC NEWS | UK | Child fingerprint plan considered
Proposals to fingerprint children aged 11 to 15 as part of new passport and ID card plans are being considered.
Immigration minister Liam Byrne told ITV1's The Sunday Edition the proposals were being "looked at".
Under existing plans every passport applicant over 16 will have details - including fingerprints - added to a National Identity register from 2008.
But there was concern youngsters could use passports without biometric details up to the age of 20, said Mr Byrne
Two years?, five years? ago this would have been unthinkable, but now it just slips over us as normal. The cattle stop lowing as they near the slaughterhouse door.