Data sharing agreements

Dyddiad y datganiad:
17 November 2020

You asked

​​I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information request, to request the following information from the Office of National Statistics.

Specifically in relation to the Data Sharing Agreement.

  1. How many Councils in England and Wales are sharing personal or sensitive personal data under this initiative
  2. Are there any councils who are only sharing pseudonymised data?

If you have any queries please don't hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.

We said

Thank you for your request.

  1. How many Councils in England and Wales are sharing personal or sensitive personal data under this initiative

We have a new initiative on the 2020 Single Data List to acquire Council Tax data from Local Authorities. In support of this we currently have data sharing agreements with 247 Local Authorities (LAs) in England and Wales and are working to establish data sharing arrangements with the remainder. In the most recent period (October 2020) we received data from 212 England and Wales LAs.

  1. Are there any councils who are only sharing pseudonymised data?

No. The data requested by ONS are record-level extracts and do not include the alternative of pseudonymised data.

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