Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions
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Minutes will not be published, and MPs still have no answer on the group's budget or how its members were chosen
The minutes of the government's recently announced digital ID advisory group will not be published, Cabinet Office minister James Frith has told a Conservative MP, while not answering his questions about its budget or how its members were selected.
Andrew Snowden, MP for Fylde and an assistant whip, asked the Cabinet Office whether the minutes, recommendations, and advice of the digital ID advisory group announced earlier this month will be published. In separate parliamentary written questions, he also asked what budget the group had been allocated and what criteria were used to select its members, who include security expert David Rogers, Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts, and former New South Wales digital government minister Victor Dominello.
"The running of the digital ID advisory group will be supported...
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