I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that. I am advised that the proposals to release death registration information will follow completion of the death registration process and should not, therefore, affect other proposals for the processes and procedures prior to the registration.

Administrative arrangements will be put in place to monitor the supply and use of information. The ultimate sanction available to registrars general, should the information be misused, is the ability to withdraw the supply of information.

Amendments Nos. 44, 48 and 80 are consequential on the new clause, which I commend to the House.

Question put and agreed to.

Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.