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Digital ID cards could help solve the small boats crisis, says Pat McFadden

Cabinet office minister Pat McFadden proposed a UK digital ID card to combat illegal immigration and benefit fraud and improve access to services.

UK will use travel data and a specialist team to stop child benefit payments to claimants abroad over eight weeks, saving 350m in five years.

Asylum seekers entering the UK illegally via small boats are attempting to claim benefits in both the UK and Ireland.

The Public Authorities Bill could lead to disproportionate surveillance of benefit claimants in the UK without adequate justification.

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