Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 1: Public Service Delivery Section 35: Disclosure of information to improve public service delivery
This section creates a permissive gateway enabling specified persons, listed in Schedule 4 (public service delivery: specified persons for the purposes of section 35), to share information for the purposes of a specified objective. Each person who is a party to the share must have been specified in relation to that objective. Subsection (3) sets out a power for the appropriate national authority to add, remove or modify entries on the Schedule by regulations. Subsection (4) provides that in order to be added to Schedule 4, a person must be a public authority or a person providing services to a public authority. Where a specified person is a person providing services to a public authority its power to disclose information is limited to the functions it exercises for that public authority.
	In deciding whether to make regulations under subsection (3) to amend Schedule 4, the appropriate national authority must consider the provisions the person(s) in question have in place to ensure secure handling of information shared. In deciding whether to make regulations which remove a specified person from the list of persons permitted to exercise the power, the appropriate national authority must consider whether the person in question has had regard to the code of practice required by section 43, which will set out best practice to be observed in exercising this power.
	A specified objective is an objective specified in regulations made by the appropriate national authority. An objective may be specified by regulations only if it meets the criteria at subsections (9), (10) and (12). The requirement for "benefit" under subsection (9)(b) means an offer or delivery of a service or type of financial assistance that is for the good or advantage of the individual or household. The "provision of a benefit" should not result in the loss or withdrawal of a service or type of financial assistance.