Editing Citizen Information Project (section)

==Scope and purpose==
The register was to have been used as a single reference point for government contact, for the exchange of personal contact data, and for the collection of [[statistics]], so reducing duplication in government departments and agencies. Government databases would have been linked together using [[National Insurance]] or other personal numbers.

In late 2003 the project moved into a definition phase. It was hoped that the CIP would be able to use data from the proposed [[National Identity Register]].

A report on preliminary testing was due in April 2005, and it had been expected that it would have been implemented before the end of 2007 if approval had been given by Government. Initial estimates in 2004 suggested that the costs might have been £1.2 - £2.4 billion (240 million annually for a period of 5 to 10 years).