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There is a balance, and we have done a lot of research because we realise that if you are going to do it in the health space, you need to bring the public with you. A lot of research was done earlier in the year, with a lot of public engagement sessions, asking people how they felt about their data being used for different benefits. The broad findings—it would be well worth digging them out, as I am doing this partially from memory—were that people were okay if there was a commercial benefit from the use of their data. They wanted there to be a scientific angle, and there was a research benefit as well, but they were okay with the commercial benefit provided that the health service was benefiting from it, including financially. They wanted to make sure that the NHS would also get the benefit of the value of that data. As I said, I am doing this from memory, but there was quite widespread support for that, of around 60% to 70%.