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Following the pilot, we will of course consider whether any legislative changes are needed to ensure full coverage of whichever identifier is ultimately chosen. Here, I think the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, also talked about children who had come from overseas. We are working through the implications of those children who come from overseas, perhaps as unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, where we would certainly expect that, at the point at which they were being cared for by children’s social care, their registration with a GP would prompt them to have an NHS number. There are also issues around adoptive children who change their NHS number that we are also working through carefully.