Clause 9 - Information databases
Children Bill [Lords]
9:15 am
Mr Tim Loughton (Shadow Minister for Children, Family; East Worthing and Shoreham, Conservative)
On the hon. Lady's point on how long information can be kept, the Bill now specifies that regulations must give details about that. We still do not have that information because we do not have any of the regulations, and we are unlikely to get it before the Bill passes through Parliament. However, at least we got a provision into the Bill that the information must be set out at some future stage. She is right to say that the information is not there.