I sympathise with Graham Chainey (Opinion, April 20) about the information we are being asked to provide on our census forms.

I would not have a problem, however, if only two items - name and address - could be omitted from the form.

They are not needed for the planning and allocation of resources the census claims to be for, any more than they are required to be put on a ballot paper.

The only purpose they serve is to enable the authorities to check each person has submitted a form.

Therefore they should be submitted on a separate piece of paper, to be destroyed after one's name has been ticked off.

Perhaps the answer is to tear off the front page of the form and write instructions on the top of it, requesting the census staff do just that.

-Jim Grozier, Springfield Road, Brighton