Joseph Pilling

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Sir Joseph Pilling is a former Director General of HM Prison Service in England and Wales, and Permanent Secretary of the Northern Ireland Office from 1997 until his retirement in 2005.[1]

Pilling was appointed as the Home Office’s first Identity Commissioner in October 2009.[2] In May 2010, Home Secretary Theresa May announced plans to scrap this post as part of the Identity Documents Bill.[3]

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Notes

  1. Our Trustees, Our Trustees, Macmillan Cancer Support, 24 June 2010.
  2. Our Trustees, Our Trustees, Macmillan Cancer Support, 24 June 2010.
  3. Richard Ford, Identity card scheme to be scrapped by Home Secretary in 100 days, The Times, 28 May 2010.