Britons face 11 ID checks a year: Knowledge Driven Revolution

UK adults are asked to prove their identity (ID) 11 times on average each year, research from Manchester Business School has found.

Laws meant to combat money-laundering and terrorism mean Britons are increasingly being asked to produce ID.

Buying an airline ticket, leasing a property, opening a savings account and registering with a doctor require ID.

And according to the research, by 2010 Britons will be asked to produce ID an average of 17 times a year.

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Technology firm GB Group, which commissioned Manchester Business School to undertake the research, said UK firms and government agencies were making up to half a billion identity checks on customers each year.

This could place a great burden on individual consumers who had to produce passports or driving licences to prove who they were, the group said.

For example, those moving house may have their identity checked more than five times throughout the process by different organisations such as estate agents, solicitors, financial advisers, lenders and the Land Registry.

"Most [consumers] are frustrated to be asked to produce documents such as passports and driving licences, often a number of times by different departments of the same business," Rob Laurence, GB Group spokesman, said.

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