The Legislative Reform (Disclosure of Adult Social Care Data) Order 2025 (expired—not approved)
Schedule 9 to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (c. 2) includes provision for the Secretary of State or the Minister for the Cabinet Office to carry out data matching exercises or to arrange for them to be done on his or her behalf. Paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 sets out the circumstances in which information (obtained for a data matching exercise and the result of any such exercise) may be disclosed by or on behalf of a Minister. The Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 applies to relevant authorities in England.
Lifecycle
Department
Made
22 Jul 2025
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In force
23 Jul 2025
Enabling power
the Act The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes this Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 1 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006(“”). For the purposes of section 3(1) of the Act, the Minister for the Cabinet Office considers, where relevant, that the conditions in section 3(2) are satisfied. The Minister for the Cabinet Office has consulted in accordance with section 13(1) of the Act. The Minister for the Cabinet Office has laid a draft Order and an explanatory document before Parliament in accordance with section 14 of the Act. Pursuant to section 15 of the Act, the affirmative resolution procedure (within the meaning of section 17 of the Act) applies in relation to the making of this Order. In accordance with section 17(2) of the Act, the draft has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament after the expiry of the 40-day period referred to in that provision.
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