Ms Billie Sparks:

I thank the Deputy for his question. Profiling of individual voters is not something we in the Labour Party co-ordinate centrally. As politicians, the Members will know from having canvassed that candidates get a sense at a door as to a whether a voter is open to them, whether they should call back and try to get a vote from the person again or encourage the person to vote for them on the day but we do not profile individuals as such and we do not bring that data together centrally.

I would add we in the Labour Party examined moving to a new database system recently. In order to complete that process we sought legal advice because with the new system we were offered some standard contractual clauses that some colleagues spoke about. I will be happy to share that legal advice with the committee if it would be of any use to them.