8. 8. Welsh Conservatives Debate: The First World War Centenary and Supporting the Armed Forces

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:56 pm on 13 July 2016.

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Photo of Carl Sargeant Carl Sargeant Labour 5:56, 13 July 2016

Let me draw your attention to one example of the issues surrounding this—the data-collection issue that the Member raised and Mark Isherwood raised about the Royal British Legion about data sharing around the survey. We’re supportive of the principle of that, but we have advice from the security services saying that this will put, potentially, service personnel at risk. I am not prepared to do that until we clarify that position. So, we aren’t ready to implement this because of security advice around that. We cannot put vulnerable adults in communities at risk because of data sharing because you think it’s the right thing to do. We will and do need to act on fact.