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In addition, a previous Government—I had quite a run-in with a certain Minister, Mr Nadhim Zahawi, on this—decided unilaterally to cancel the national adoption register for England, which was working extraordinarily effectively, not least because it was England-wide. It was able to identify children and match them with prospective adoptive parents, sometimes way outside their immediate geography, but we have largely lost that by moving to the model that we have now. The time is ripe for a review to understand what is and what is not working, look at the lessons of the past, pull that together and try to make this work.