You asked:
I would like to request the following information under the freedom of information act. It relates to this report:
Notably, point 3.7:
“We are aware of, and the HoP has sent us correspondence relating to, concerns on both access and privacy, including around the sharing of data that it holds in the NPD with other parts of government.”
Please could I see a copy of the correspondence mentioned above, which formed part of the findings of this report.
We said:
You requested a copy of the correspondence from the Department of Education (DfE) that we mentioned in paragraph 3.7 of our Assessment report Statistics for England on Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics and on Absence and Exclusions
We published DfE’s letter and our response on 28 November 2016. Here are the links to the published letters:
Letter sent by Iain Bell, Director for Data Standards Analysis Group, DfE to Ed Humpherson https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/access-to-education-attainment-data-3/
Response from Ed Humpherson, Director General of Regulation, Office for Statistics Regulation to Iain Bell
https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/access-to-education-attainment-data-4/
The published report did not include a reference to the correspondence and we apologise for that. We will re-publish the report with the reference included.
We published further correspondence on the subject of privacy and data access on 16 February 2017 and here are the links:
Letter sent by Jen Persson to Ed Humpherson https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/concerns-over-public-datasets-at-the-department-or-education/
Response from Ed Humpherson, Director General of Regulation, Office for Statistics Regulation to Jen Persson https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/the-use-of-pupil-data-collected-through-the-school-census/