Background Part 2: Courts and Justice Section: 27 Disclosure of information to facilitate collection of fines and other sums
43.The current data sharing gateway in Schedule 5 to the 2003 Act is amended by section 27 to bring the relevant paragraphs of that Schedule within a new Part 3A of that Schedule. New Part 3A enables the Secretary of State (in practice the Department for Work and Pensions) and a Northern Ireland Department and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to share “social security information” and “finances information” with HMCTS for the purpose of the enforcement of unpaid financial penalties.