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.