PART III MISCELLANEOUS

12 Disclosure of information
1 The Secretary of State may supply the Department for Social Development with information about any award made to—
(a) a person who is (either as an individual or as a member of a joint-claim couple) in receipt of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance, or
(b) a person whose capital is treated, for the purposes of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance, as the capital of a person or joint-claim couple in receipt of that benefit.
2 The Secretary of State may supply the Department of Finance and Personnel or the Northern Ireland Housing Executive with information about any award made to—
(a) a person who is in receipt of housing benefit, or
(b) a person whose capital is, for the purposes of housing benefit, treated as the capital of a person in receipt of that benefit.
3 The Secretary of State may supply the Board or any officer of the Board with information about any award made to—
(a) a person who is in receipt of working families' tax credit, or
(b) a person whose capital is, for the purposes of working families' tax credit, treated as the capital of a person in receipt of that tax credit.