Ms Helen Dixon:

We are significantly advanced in the process of issuing a further draft report to the Department that will make provisional findings subject to anything it wants to submit to us on biometric processing, such as information related to the issue of the photographs, the arithmetic template or the photo-matching.

On the security issues the Chairman raised, we are looking at a number of other case studies, such as the free travel scheme - a variant of the public services card - and the information that is passed back and processed by the Department from public and private sector transport operators.