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Proceeding contribution from Baroness Noakes (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 23 May 2007. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Statistics and Registration Service Bill.

Statistics and Registration Service Bill

I find that question a little difficult to answer. I am worried about any form of personal information that the Statistics Board might hold for its statistical purposes. I have no problem with the Statistics Board receiving personal information to produce statistics—that is entirely sensible and rational—but I am probing the circumstances in which the Statistics Board may pass on that personal information. It will acquire quite a lot of personal information; for example, it will be able to acquire information from NHS registration practices. I am sure that the Minister can assure the noble Lord, Lord Desai, that it will be quite normal for the Statistics Board—or the ONS at the moment—to have access to personal information in the production of its statistics. I am probing the removal of that information beyond the Statistics Board, not its use within it.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
692 c727-8 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Disclosure of information Census Intelligence services Government departments NHS Patients National security Personal records Northern Ireland Public interest Staff Office for National Statistics Scotland Statistics Registration Statistics Commission UK Statistics Authority Information sharing
Legislation
Statistics and Registration Service Bill 2006-07
Link
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