“The pace will quicken now. The parliamentary process hasn't ended, but by any reckoning last night was decisive. After today, there will be a gear change in terms of how everybody sees this: government, the private sector, everybody.”
“We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.”
“If the LSE had a legitimate point to make, it's that there is a demand for more information. The implication was that we were so worried about the costs of this scheme that we didn't dare put it out into the public domain.”
“A PIN number would be a new intermediate way of checking a card was authentic. The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved.”
