Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when requests for access made by (1) the Border Force, and (2) the police, to (a) the National Pupil Database (NPD), and (b) the new children’s nationality database, will be included in the published NPD list of third-party data requests.

The data collected on children’s nationality is for internal DfE use only and will not be shared with any external organisations. The Department for Education has already made this commitment.

The Department has also committed to bringing together the range of existing guidance and information on the use of pupil data by other government departments over the coming months. DfE intends that this will provide users with improved access and signposting to supporting information. This will include The Memorandum of Understanding with the Home Office alluded to under (1), and the occasional request of an individual record of data by the police alluded to under (2).