Electoral Administration Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for that long and comprehensive answer. I hope that when I read it in Hansard I will understand it a little better than when I was listening to her—but that is my fault, not hers. It must be the excitement of marching through the Division Lobby that took my mind off this. My problem is that the clause reads as though there could be no regulations at all that allowed such access. I recognise that access to information in a big national database is clearly different from access to information that can be printed on paper, where people can go to the local post office or town hall and look at it. If that is what this means, then I have no problems with it; but the way that the clause is worded seems to provide an opportunity for there to be no national access at all to the CORE register. Can that be looked at, simply as a matter of drafting, because what the noble Baroness said in relation to my comments was entirely acceptable?