5At the end of section 15 of the [1993 c. 46.] Health Service Commissioners Act 1993 (confidentiality of information) there is inserted—
“(4)Information obtained from the Information Commissioner by virtue of section 76 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) as obtained for the purposes of an investigation and, in relation to such information, the reference in paragraph (a) of that subsection to the investigation shall have effect as a reference to any investigation.”