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In response to the comments on these issues by the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, the PRS database will provide a consistent national dataset. Such data is essential for local authorities to be able effectively to design their local strategies, to target their enforcement work and to track rogue landlords across different local authority areas. The database will complement other locally held data and will improve the overall picture that local authorities have about the private rented stock in their areas. For all the reasons that I have outlined, I respectfully ask that the noble Lord Best does not press his amendment.