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Several amendments have been tabled, about which comments have been made by noble Lords elsewhere. First—and this goes to the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Harper—the purpose of Clauses 27 to 31 in this Bill is to empower HMRC to share the information that it holds in connection with its customs functions, and the DVLA to share the information it holds in connection with the registration of trailers, including entire datasets where appropriate, across government and with law enforcement bodies. Those clauses are there for a purpose. The purpose is to enable the Home Office and other partners to benefit from the use of modern big data tools and analytics to meet the key government objective for law enforcement, national security, customs and immigration issues.