Clause 9 - Information databases
Children Bill [Lords]
8:55 am
Mr Tim Loughton (Shadow Minister for Children, Family; East Worthing and Shoreham, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 34, in
clause 9, page 7, line 21, leave out 'one or more databases' and insert 'a United Kingdom-wide database'.
Welcome back to the Chair, Dame Marion. In the absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Turner), let me say how appropriate it is that your return is accompanied by the sun's rays tripping through the autumn sky, across an azure-blue background poking fun at the gun-grey clouds of despair that haunted our proceedings earlier in the week. My hon. Friend extends his apologies that he will not be joining us this morning. I am sure that the Committee will wax less lyrical as a consequence, but I shall try my best to fill in for him.
The clause is very important and I anticipate that the Committee will take a fair amount of time to discuss it. I shall talk in fairly general terms about the whole clause, unless you indicate that we shall have a clause stand part debate, Dame Marion. I would be happy to defer a more general discussion until that stage.