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"Like the European Commission, Hungary regards the independence of the national bank, the justice system and the data protection authority as fundamentally important, " it said.

BBC: EU opens legal action against Hungary over new laws

Mr Lewis said one of the reasons an electronic census could not be done before was that a system was needed that was able to pull out that information in a way that was data protection compliant.

BBC: Guernsey census data protection a 'priority'