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Identity Cards Bill

My Lords, I cannot help but reflect with some amusement that we had a full discussion about wearing your face on the front of your head and not on the back, whereas we allowed to pass rather quickly the fact that the noble Baroness accepted all the recommendations of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee in a previous group of amendments. That was the most enormous move; I was looking at them, and it is much to the Government’s credit that they have accepted all those carefully thought-out amendments. I am no longer a member of the committee, but it had done some deep thinking about this. It is a lovely contrast, and I think that the amendment is delightful.