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Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support these amendments. The noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, has spoken eloquently about the need for balance, and, again, that is what the issue is about. We have spoken on many occasions in these debates, both in Committee and on Report, about how the Bill must strive to get the right balance between the public interest and the rights of the individual. I should not like to see us heading down the route where, for example—as happens in a certain place on the other side of the Atlantic—you can be absolutely confident that if information is required by one agency it will flow, almost as a matter of course, around the agency circuit without any control at all. It is important that we strike the right balance, and for that reason I support the amendments.