That the Parliament notes with concern the Scottish Government’s consultation on amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006; understands with alarm that it plans to turn the register into a national identification database that up to 120 different organisations will be able to use to identify and trace people; believes that such a database would be at great risk of abuse; understands that it is planned that every person would be assigned a unique “citizen reference number” to allow public bodies to track them; considers that this is only one step away from introducing ID cards; is perturbed with reports that the Scottish Government has failed to link the proposals to any plans for keeping people’s information secure, or the costs or timescales for establishing the database; is astonished to learn that it has not published a privacy impact assessment of the proposals; understands that it is seeking to make the changes with the minimum of consultation, and calls on the Scottish Government to abandon these proposals with immediate effect before any further public funding is spent on the scheme.