Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]: New Clause 12 - Office for Students: publication and protection from defamation
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Clause text:

New Clause 12 - Office for Students: publication and protection from defamation
In the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, after section 67 insert—
“Publication
67A Power for the OfS to publish notices, decisions and reports
(1) The OfS may publish notices, decisions and reports given or made in the performance of its functions.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect any other power of the OfS to publish such a matter.
(3) Publication under this section does not breach—
(a) an obligation of confidence owed by the OfS, or
(b) any other restriction on the publication or disclosure of information (however imposed).
(4) But nothing in this section authorises the OfS to publish information where doing so contravenes the data protection legislation.