Primary Recommendations

Kainos - Will be a beneficiary of the Digital ID Card

October 2025

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Interacting with the government in Britain is now almost entirely digital. Think about what you might have done recently: reported a missed bin collection online, booked a driving test, updated business rates via council dashboards, or wrestled with Companies House’s new ID checks across a patchwork of legacy systems. The paper forms may be gone, but one critical piece of infrastructure is still missing: a unified, secure and scalable way to prove identity online. That is the gap the proposed BritCard - Labour’s mandatory national digital ID - aims to fill. If BritCard becomes reality, Kainos looks well placed to be at the centre of its rollout. Even if Accenture and other giants secure top-tier contractor slots, Kainos - as one o ...

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