UCAS Chief Executive Mary Curnock Cook responds to Independent article on personal data

1. We never sell personal data.

2. We do share anonymised data and information with  organisations and researchers and publish extensive anonymised data sets openly on our website.

3. We have welcomed the Social Mobility & Child Poverty Commission report and are working to provide our data through the secure Administrative Data Research Network as recommended in the report

4. We are totally committed to supporting widening participation and fair access using our rich  data sets and our Trustees are 100% supportive of our approach

5. We take our responsibilities to our customers very seriously.  They tell us that they don’t want us to share their personal data without explicit consent.  Where we have explicit consent, we share.  If we don’t have explicit consent we only share data which  protects individuals from being identified.