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Electoral Administration Bill

I thank the Minister for her amiable reply, which was very good to hear at this early stage. It might be helpful to the Committee if the noble Baroness could indicate exactly what the CORE scheme will do. As I understood it initially, I thought that it was the registration scheme, but in fact it is not. It is an overarching scheme into which the electoral registration officers will pile the information on the various registers. I am not quite sure of the purpose of that if the registers are to be held at local level anyway. It might be helpful at this early stage if the Minister could outline what will happen, as I think that other amendments will pick up on some of these issues.