Identity Cards Bill

I wonder if I could ask a question of the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, because I am not perfectly clear as to the impact of Amendment No. 9, which, as we know, adds to the subsection that there must be reasonable proof that the person requesting information needs it. As I see it, those who have given consent to banks and building societies, for example, to access the record of the individual who gave that consent, are obviously not required to give reasonable proof because consent has been given in advance. Therefore, is the amendment addressed to the police and public authorities who have rights under this Bill to have access to the register? If the answer to that is ““yes””, I wonder how that will work in practice and how, as a matter of day to day reality, a police force, for example, will be able to establish that it reasonably requires access. Finally—I hope that this is helping the Committee; it is certainly helping me—would the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, say that her laudable aim, and I absolutely see what she is getting at, be a touch better contended with in those parts of the Bill that give public authorities and so on, the right to access the register?