Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 7: Statistics Section 81: Disclosure by the Statistics Board to devolved administrations
This section inserts a new section 53A into the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. New section 53A will allow the Statistics Board to disclose information it holds in connection with the exercise of any of its functions to a devolved authority (which is defined in subsection (2) of the new section). Information may only be disclosed for the purpose of the statistical functions of the devolved authority. New section 53A sets out the procedure by which the devolved authority must request the information, which requires a written request which specifies the information that is sought and the purposes for which it is sought. Subsection (6) of new section 53A specifies conditions for disclosure which include, in the case of information received from public authorities, that the public authority consents to its disclosure. Subsection (7) of new section 53A permits the Statistics Board to set conditions the devolved authority must meet before the information is disclosed. Subsection (8) of new section 53A limits use of the information disclosed to the purposes for which it was disclosed.
	Subsection (9) of new section 53A provides that in disclosing information under section 53A, the Statistics Board 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.
	By subsection (12), new section 53A does not permit a disclosure which would breach a restriction on disclosure (such as an obligation of confidence owed by the Statistics Board), would contravene the Data Protection Act 1998, would be 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, would be prohibited by Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000) or any other restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed).