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Earl Russell: I thank the Minister for a serious and thoughtful as well as a helpful reply. I was very much persuaded by what he said. I take his point about the sixth data protection principle. I take his point about national insurance records. I take his point about one month. He can probably compose in his sleep the reply that I might have made about being judge in his own cause of what is necessary. I hope that when he does sleep, which I hope is not too far off, he will not find himself doing that because I am not going to make that reply. Anything the Minister does not have already--that is, if anything, very little--the cost would soon remind him of. So I think this one is all right. I am pleased to beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Clause 3 agreed to.

House resumed.

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