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Childcare Bill

I hope that the Minister understands why we are trying to establish the detail of the proposal. She said that medical records were exempt, and would not be kept on the database—a point that I made in relation to section 12 of the Children Act 2004. Does one provision override the other? The new clause does not refer to the 2004 Act or to the exemptions in it, so is there a measure that makes it explicit that the new clause is subject to those exemptions? The exemptions apply to national and local databases, and will not necessarily apply to the database that will be collated. I am not sure that there is an interconnection.