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e-Government

: Does the hon. Gentleman accept, given his expertise and his particular constituency, that the state has, for many years, had the power to engage in the type of surveillance about which he is concerned? Indeed, the technology that marketeers use is based, for example, on work that Ordnance Survey does? Therefore the power is there, but is not the hon. Gentleman sufficiently confident in the robustness of the democratic process in this country to be certain, as I am, that no Government would abuse that power?