To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what data exchanges of sensitive personal data have taken place between his Department and local authorities in the last 12 months; and what datasets were collected. (176242)

The Department lawfully exchanges data with local authorities for a very wide range of purposes. Many of these exchanges are provided routinely on a day-to-day basis with local authority staff, and consequently details are not available, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.