Lord Harris of Haringey – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Harris of Haringey on 2016-10-21.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 12 October (HL Deb, col 1889–90), whether any of the information supplied in response to the 20 information requests made by the Home Office of the National Pupil Database since April 2012 related to the information now being sought from schools as part of the school census on pupils’ nationality; and whether such information will be supplied in response to future requests for information.

Lord Nash

Data on nationality and country of birth have not and will not be shared with the Home Office or anyone else. It is solely for DfE research.