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I hope we will have a ministerial answer from the Dispatch Box that agrees to deal with this issue as a matter of urgency before Report, not one saying it is complicated. We know it is complicated, but for the postmasters, the nurses or anyone else whose life or livelihood has been taken or threatened by a bug, the status quo is unacceptable. Twenty-five years is too long for the law to assert something that is patently false. The MoJ has been looking at this issue in detail for more than five years and I have sought an urgent answer, along with the noble Lord, Lord Arbuthnot, for the past five months. If it is too complicated for the MoJ, I have a group of eminent lawyers and computer scientists who would happily do the task for it. I beg to move.