Member

The HMRC data—again, I hope this is a reassurance to all noble Lords who have mentioned it—is solely used and held in connection with the HMRC’s customs function. This relates to the processes by which goods and cash cross the UK border—for example, information collected directly by HMRC when people and companies are importing or exporting goods. The DVLA trailer registration data is broadly limited to some basic details about UK registered trailers and the keepers of those trailers, so that sharing both datasets with the Home Office enables better identification and detection of broader criminality. I hope that is an objective that the Committee today will share. We do not want to lose that data and we do not want it to be analysed in isolation, and data sharing is key to that objective.