The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Higher Education Student Information) Regulations 2009
These Regulations provide that the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (together, the Funding Councils) may disclose the information listed in regulation 4 about individual students, including individuals who have been students at any time since 1 August 2000, to the Statistics Board (the Board). The Funding Councils may only disclose to the Board information collected by them since 1 August 2000. 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.