Part 5: Housing, Estate Agents and Rentcharges: Other Changes Housing information in England Section 129: Use of information obtained for certain other statutory purposes
This section amends section 237 of the Housing Act 2004 to provide that the Secretary of State may make regulations, under the affirmative procedure to change the list of purposes for which a local authority may use the data that it has obtained in exercise of its functions under section 134 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 or Part 1 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. Such data may be used by a local authority in exercise of its functions under Parts 1 to 4 of the Housing Act 2004. However, it may be necessary to amend the list of purposes in order to ensure that data obtained under section 212A and section 237 of the Housing Act 2004 can still be matched with one another should changes be made to the list of purposes in section 212A(5) of that Act.