At Wednesday's Full Council meeting the Liberal Democrat Group proposed a Motion calling on the Prime Minister to abandon proposals for compulsory digital ID cards.
Councillor Jeremy Wilcock who proposed the Motion said :
"Digital ID cards were not in Labour's General Election manifesto.
"Mandatory digital ID would cost the taxpayers billions with zero guarantee of success. Time and again government tech projects waste huge amounts of money and don't actually work.
"Liberal Democrats are particularly concerned about the millions of older people, people living in poverty and disabled people who are more likely to be digitally excluded.
"In the East Riding we are faced with the continued severe under-funding of our SEND and schools' budgets, and our roads and pavements are in a state of 'managed decline'.
"So we urge the Prime Minister to abandon this costly, unnecessary, unwanted and illiberal assault on our civil liberties and to invest instead in badly needed local government services"