Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 7: Statistics Section 79: Disclosure of information by public authorities to the Statistics Board
Subsection (2) inserts new section 45A (information held by other public authorities) into the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 ("the 2007 Act") to make provision for the disclosure of information held by public authorities to the Statistics Board where the public authority is satisfied that the Board requires that information for the purposes of any one or more of the Board's functions. Such information may not be used by the Statistics Board for the purposes of its functions under section 22 of the 2007 Act (statistical services), or be disclosed by the Board to an approved researcher under section 39(4)(i) of the 2007 Act, without the consent of the public authority which provided the information.
	Subsection (8) of new section 45A provides that in disclosing information under section 45A, a public authority 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 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 public authority must have regard to any views of the Statistics Board that are communicated to it.
	Subsection (11) of new section 45A provides that any such disclosure does not breach any obligation of confidence or other restriction on disclosure, however imposed. The section does not authorise a disclosure that contravenes the Data Protection Act 1998, is prohibited by any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (or, until such time as those provisions are in force, Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000) or contravenes EU law.
	Subsection (3) omits sections 47 to 49 of the 2007 Act which make provision for regulations to authorise disclosure by public authorities, including devolved authorities, to the Statistics Board. Those powers to make provision by regulations for sharing information are replaced by the regime set out in new section 45A.