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Identity Cards Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and I apologise for bowling a fast one on Clauses 19 and 20. As she so rightly says, we need to talk about this on another occasion. The noble Baroness talked of an aide-mémoire, having an audit log and the fact that that would give a citizen an opportunity to detect patterns of fraudulent usage. That is absolutely true but, frankly, we want citizens to have that choice. Many of us might take the choice of our cards being logged in the audit trail, but we do not believe that the citizen should be deprived of the choice of whether that shall be captured in the register. In view of what the noble Baroness has said, I am very happy to withdraw the amendment at this stage. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 34 had been retabled as Amendment No.37A.]