Court wants to know my NI number..

In message , Peter Saxton writes

I don't know for sure. I guess numbers only become inactive when they learn of the death of the holder.

Both of those must inflate the numbers, but whether they are enough to account for an inflation by 50% or more, I doubt.

So what do you think the reason is?

It seems hard enough for genuine people to get ONE NI number never mind more than one!

In message , Peter Saxton writes

I agree that it is now, but I think that in the past it was quite a lot easier to get one. I suspect that non-genuine people always find it easier to get around the rules, then the law-abiding ones. How I don't know.

But it all gives me no confidence at all in the proposed National Identity Register.

Don't you mean that you have no confidence in anything the government gets involved with?

Why isolate the National Identity Register?