INSTRUCTIONS for an identity card:

1 A Plastic card; 2 DOB; 3 Thumb print; 4 Photograph; 5 National Insurance number; 6 Passport number; 7 Biometric data; 8 DNA Profile; 9 Blood group; 10 Allergies; 11 Nationality; 12 EU status; 13 Infectious disease; 14 Contagious disease.

A plastic card, no bigger than a normal credit card, to be used in conjunction with a credit card, able to fit into the slit of the hole in the wall.

National Insurance number and passport number, possibly the same number for both purposes.

Nationality and EU Citizenship -- who said that a passport must be paper, it can be plastic.

There could be a common type card for all EU citizens.

The AIDS carrier warning -- which must surely be the cheapest, healthiest, and humane way of containing the spread of AIDS.

The AIDS symbol should be of international readability, e.g. an embossed skull and crossbones, why, which even the blind can read, that symbol to be unusable anywhere else. i.e. It must only indicate disease such as AIDS.

The ID card should be compulsory from the age of ten. Renewable every five years and costing no more than £60 from the age of 25 and subject to means testing.

It could be issued by the Passport Office and should be put into effect from yesterday.

The population could be divided with 12 million citizens issued with the ID over five years, thus creating an ongoing industry developing with increasing efficiency.

There should be an ID card for security matters, a medical record for a doctor, a passport for Europe and elsewhere, a buffer against fraud, an insurance against AIDS.

To objectors, I state, object to the two women who were deliberately infected with AIDS by a despotic carrier of AIDS.

And unless the media is lying, the taxman and benefits agencies will be wealthier by tens of millions of pounds.

The police will be able to divert fraud investigative elsewhere.

I welcome public reaction, and wonder whether the Government can see beyond the paper passport of yesterdays technology.

Frederick Valentine,

St Georges Road,

Lytham St Annes