Member

I welcome the intention behind Amendment 56, to ensure that the governance of a consistent identifier is both appropriate and transparent. Let me be absolutely clear: these clauses do not require, nor do they imply the creation of, a central register for children. There is no intention to establish a national register. The noble Lord, Lord Jackson, took us through a history of ContactPoint and the controversies around it but, to reiterate, this consistent identifier is to enable organisations to much more clearly be able to link information. It is not intended to feed information to a database, the nature of which I can understand some of the concerns around.