Commentary Part 6 – Data Matching Section 33 and Schedule 9: Data matching
113.Apart from transferring the power to conduct data matching exercises from the Audit Commission to the Secretary of State or the Minister for the Cabinet Office, and inserting the prevention and detection of errors and inaccuracies as a further potential purpose for which data matching exercises may be undertaken, the data matching powers set out in Schedule 9 and given effect to by section 33, are largely the same as the provisions inserted into the Audit Commission Act 1998 by the Serious Crime Act 2007.