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Electoral Administration Bill

I have a great deal of sympathy with the amendment tabled by my noble friend. I am suffering from amnesia already on this Bill. I cannot remember whether, when we were discussing CORE, we discussed the possibility of people being able to opt out of having their names on CORE or whether there would be limitations on who could access CORE. The Minister knows the answer, so we are winning on that. There is a big problem and there may be an amendment later to deal with this. The DVLA has cast a huge stone into the pond by having sold on information about people on whom it has information. You can understand why people on the electoral register might be quite twitchy about who has access to that information—not for the reasons that we were talking about on the earlier amendment, but because they do not want people to send them information, bang on their doors and, more and more commonly, ring them up. My noble friend’s amendment has a lot of merit. We need to be reassured by the Minister or, perhaps, we may come back to this. Certainly, I support the amendment.