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Coroners and Justice Bill

I have considerable sympathy for the amendment put forward by the noble Baroness. It fits in with the stance that we on these Benches have taken against the Government’s surveillance society and against the retention of DNA. I recommend that she returns to it on Report, when I hope we might be debating it at a slightly more convenient time and not on the last day of term when many of us are hoping to catch trains or whatever. I will be interested to hear whether the Government have any response to this and, if they have, what sort of response they are going to try to put forward.