An even greater savings can be achieved through reducing the ID verifications outsourced to third-parties, which may help explain part of the motivation behind Gov.uk’s new tasks. The SIA’s largest third-party identity verification contract is for £900,000 (approximately US$1.2 million) a year. How much would be saved from this reduction is beyond SIA’s capacity to estimate, but the report notes that “The cost of the new Digital ID service must of course be offset against these savings.”