Diolch, Llywydd. In keeping with the Welsh Conservative policy intent to protect small businesses from undue penalisation from this legislation, we have tabled this amendment that sets out an intent to protect retailers and their data by ensuring that only relevant information is held about them on a retailers register. We welcome the willingness of the Minister to work with us in this regard and to share our concerns as to what is reasonable when it comes to storing information on retailers. At the committee stage, the Minister stated:

‘One of the key considerations when developing the retail register was ensuring that the appropriate balance is struck between achieving the policy aims whilst minimising the burden on retailers. In line with this guiding principle, we would not want to include extra details, such as photographs, unless it became absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, it is important that the ability to add additional information to the retail register is retained in order to be able to respond to changing circumstances.’

I raise this as a major concern because, actually, small businesses are usually very tight on time, don’t have rafts of experts to help them and could be put under immense pressure if a county council or any other authority chose to try to extract more information from them. So, I’m very pleased that the Welsh Conservative amendments at Stage 2 prompted a reconsideration of section 27(6) by the Minister. I would like to thank both the Minister and her lawyer in helping us to review this section and the lawyer for her help in redrafting it. I would ask Members to support this amendment.