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UK government

Cabinet Office issuedMarch 2026 national digital ID consultation; September ministerial answer confirms cancellation. Department/date scopes remain explicit.

What the records show

UK governmentNational digital-ID scheme · cancelled July 2026

consulted on and later cancelled

March 2026 consultation; July 2026 cancellation; September 2026 confirmation

Dated proposal and cancellation are separate events; minister confirms no final businesscase before cancellation. OneLogin/Wallet/privateDVS are not merged into this cancelledprogramme.

From the investigation

Candidate typed relations (not yet canonical)

No adoption edge proposed for India, UNESCO, UK Government, UNGA, UNSC or Geneva based on this pass. No campaign-funding edge proposed from the UNESCO umbrella funding paragraph. A current institutional co-chair appointment is a separate governance relation, not evidence the appointment was caused by campaign participation.

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The earlier encryption-policy route

The paper advocates technically possible client-side protections, but explicitly disclaims UK government policy or requirements and a complete security analysis (PDF10). Its discussion recognises coercion, database manipulation and mission creep; it reports no evidence for its considered charity-funding capture scenario (PDF41–42). It also points to REPHRAIN's separate Safety Tech Challenge Fund evaluation work (PDF6,56). That is not the later Toolbox award or proof of a common programme. Read cover, selected introduction/executive-summary pages, section6.1 and the opening of section8; no full technical validation claimed. Original arXiv PDF retained.

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Historical funding disclosure present in the same evidence

FON0071's GDI and Government Funding section says GDI had received no UK government funding since 2022; describes FCDO Russia-unit Countering Disinformation and Media Development work in 2018–2022 to develop large-scale detection and country studies; and says the supporting grant expired in March 2023. The receipt-period statement and later grant-expiry date are not a self-evident contradiction. It also attributes then-current resources to private foundations, commercial data licensing and a small EU Horizon Europe grant. This is a historical recipient disclosure, not donor-side confirmation, acquired conditions, proof of payment dates or government approval of a particular rating. No funding genealogy was pursued.

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Further reading

UK implementation: platform choice, overlapping regulators and a cancelled national programme

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What the connections say

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UK governmentconsulted on and later cancelledNational digital-ID scheme · cancelled July 2026

March 2026 consultation; July 2026 cancellation; September 2026 confirmation

Dated proposal and cancellation are separate events; minister confirms no final businesscase before cancellation. OneLogin/Wallet/privateDVS are not merged into this cancelledprogramme.

Read the original sources 3