New Clause 1
Serious Crime Bill
11:30 am
Jeremy Browne (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Taunton, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
The new clause was suggested by Liberty, so perhaps the Minister will be sympathetic to it as he now quotes that organisation approvingly in his favour. It is designed to ensure that data from the national identity register and the children’s index cannot be used in data matching exercises under the Bill. Our concern is that allowing data from those sources to be used will lead to data mining. It is difficult to see the justification in arguing that that type of information is needed to detect fraud. On that basis, I put forward the new clause for the Committee’s consideration.