Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 7: Statistics Section 78: Disclosure of information by the Revenue and Customs to the Statistics Board
This section amends section 45 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 ("the 2007 Act") which makes provision for the disclosure of information held by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to the Statistics Board (the name used in legislation when describing the United Kingdom Statistics Authority). It lifts the restriction that prevents the Revenue and Customs from disclosing information to the Statistics Board for the Board's functions under section 22 of the 2007 Act (statistical services), and it permits the Board to use information for those functions where it has the consent of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. It also omits subsection (5) of section 45 of the 2007 Act which prevents the disclosure of personal information held by the Revenue and Customs that does not relate to imports and exports.
	Subsections (6) to (8) insert a new subsection (4A) into section 45, providing that in disclosing information under section 45, the Commissioners or an officer of Revenue and Customs must have regard to applicable codes of practice that the Information Commissioner has issued under section 51(3) of the Data Protection Act 1998 on the identification and reduction of risks to privacy or on information to be provided to data subjects on the use of information collected from them, in so far as the codes apply to the information in question. This would include the current codes on privacy impact assessments and privacy notices. In determining how to comply with this duty, the Commissioners or the officer of Revenue or Customs must have regard to any view of the Statistics Board which is communicated to them.