Member

The Minister was kind enough to meet me this morning to set out his case that the Bill as it stands addresses our concerns. Even if it does so going forward, the Sullivan report warns us that the data as currently held by public bodies may not be reliable. In fact, it is almost certainly not reliable in many cases. Whatever the rules imposed on DBS, it may be passing on inaccuracies already present in the sex and gender data and, as was observed in an earlier debate, when it comes to databases, it is a case of garbage in, garbage out.