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What we are looking at now is in relation to the small number of individuals—again, this goes to the nub of the points made by both Front-Bench speakers—who are on the barred list for reasons other than a relevant criminal conviction or other police information. It is still possible that the police may have information on those individuals on their systems via, for example, a criminal investigation. That leaves a small potential cohort on the barred list where the barred status, which can be accessed only with DBS permission, would be the only information available on police systems. In those cases, the number in this small group is reduced further as it concerns only those being looked into by those forces added by this order which, by definition, are a minority of police forces. The assessment we have made is that there is a minimal risk to the public from that change.