Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2017 to Question 56640, on pupils: nationality, whether her Department provides National Pupil Database data to named bodies and third parties free of charge.

NPD extracts are only provided once third parties have satisfied the NPD strict terms and conditions covering the appropriateness of use, confidentiality and handling of data, security arrangements, and commitment to subsequently destruct the data at the end of the license period.

The data extracts are provided free of charge.