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You can have a registration system where you get a government services number with very limited information recorded without mandatory ID
Of course you can. There are many versions of this already implemented on a per-service basis (NI, Passports, NHS, council tax). But requiring people to register their residence within n months of living somewhere for a centralized database is seen to be something less about services and more about surveillance by many.
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Seen is the word here.
The government already shares data freely with little oversight, facial recognition trials don't get oversight but when this gets brought up its panic time.
The NHS England is planning to sell all data to companies, anonymisation is probably not accurate.
I'd be all for much more oversight, in Estonia where the government is quite far in e-government there is a lot of oversight and trust.
Here trust is very low, they'd need to start by fixing the lack of control and ensure proper access controls on data.
JWestland
You can have a registration system where you get a government services number with very limited information recorded without mandatory ID
The irony is that civil liberties in the UK are quite poor in some aspects, I do disagree myself with mandatory ID.