The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2009
These Regulations provide that the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families may disclose the information listed in regulation 4 about individual pupils to the Statistics Board (the Board). Regulation 5 provides that the Board may only use that information in order to enable it to produce population statistics; for the making of arrangements for a census that the Board is required to undertake under the Census Act 1920; and for the assessment of the census returns.