The Welfare Reform Act (Relevant Enactment) Order 2009
Information relating to certain benefits may be supplied under section 42(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 to a person referred to in section 42(4) for purposes connected with the application of a grant paid under “a relevant enactment” towards expenditure incurred by the recipient of the grant in providing welfare services. This Order specifies that section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 is a relevant enactment. Section 31 of that Act provides that a Minister of the Crown or the National Assembly for Wales may pay grants to local authorities in, respectively, England and Wales, towards expenditure incurred or to be incurred by a local authority.