Yes, every other Royal Mail that benefited from a nationally compiled database would also be at risk of having the database they didn't pay to create opened up.

Yes, every other Royal Mail that benefited from a nationally compiled database would also be at risk of having the database they didn't pay to create opened up... meaning they could continue to use it in exactly the same way. How devastating. /s If you benefit by paying politicians so you can 'steal' national assets then why shouldn't we go after some of those assets. We're not even talking about depriving then if the asset, only making a copy of it.