Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

It did not seem to us a particular problem at the time. I suppose that if you use just the name then it does not really breach confidentiality, because it could be anyone. If you put in the postcode, what is the confidence that one is breaking? We did not find it a problem, and I do not remember anyone ever raising the issue or asking whether it was wrong. Certainly, none of the newspapers concerned raised the point. I have here the Times of 23 July, which the Library very kindly dug out. The Times and other major newspapers were involved, and we covered the whole range of tabloids, and none of them seemed to feel that there was any problem with this at all. If the Minister has a legal angle on this, he should by all means tell us about it—but we were not aware of the problem.