The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2009

• Citation: S.I. 2009/277
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Disclosure of Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2009 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Section 2 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

These Regulations apply in England only.

Section 3 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

In these Regulations—

“ the Act ” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;

“the 1996 Act ” means the Education Act 1996 ;

“anonymous pupil reference number” means the number which—

is assigned to a pupil by use of a formula determined by the Department for Children, Schools and Families;

continues to apply to the pupil regardless of any change in the pupil’s school; and

does not, without additional information, identify the pupil;

“pupil” has the meaning given by section 3 of the 1996 Act ;

“school” has the meaning given by section 4 of the 1996 Act .

Section 4 Disclosure of individual pupil information

(1) The Secretary of State may disclose to the Statistics Board the following information about individual pupils.

(2) The information is—

(a) the pupil’s—

(i) surname, and any former surname;

(ii) preferred surname;

(iii) first name;

(iv) middle name, or if more than one, each middle name;

(v) date of birth;

(vi) gender;

(vii) ethnic group and source of that information;

(viii) first language;

(ix) school and the address of that school;

(x) date of admission to, and departure from, that school; and

(xi) anonymous pupil reference number;

(b) the address and postcode of the home where the pupil normally resides;

(c) whether the pupil is a day or boarding pupil at the school; and

(d) if the pupil normally resides with a person specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph 19(1) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2006 , that information, and its source.

Section 5 Purposes for which disclosure is authorised

Information disclosed under regulation 4 may only be used by the Statistics Board for the following statistical purposes—

(a) the production of population statistics under section 20 (production of statistics) of the Act;

(b) the making of arrangements for a census under section 2 of the Census Act 1920 (duty of Registrar-General to carry out census, and provision for expenses); and

(c) the assessment of the census returns.

Section 6 Restriction on further disclosure of personal information

In the application of section 39 (confidentiality of personal information) of the Act to personal information which is disclosed to the Statistics Board under regulation 4—

(a) subsection (4)(a) applies only to the extent that—

(i) a disclosure is required by an enactment; or

(ii) a disclosure is permitted by section 41 (disclosure of information to service providers) of the Act but only in connection with the purposes specified in regulation 5;

(b) paragraphs (d), (f), (g) and (h) of subsection (4) do not apply.