Non-health administrative data

Non-health administrative data#

Last modified: 09 Jul 2025

UK LLC is working with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to build data pipelines to flow non-health administrative data into the UK LLC Trusted Research Environment (TRE).

UK LLC has been approved by the UK Statistics Authority as an accredited processing environment under the Digital Economy Act (DEA) 2017. This permits UK LLC to oversee the linkage, matching, curation and de-identification of administrative data; and the storage and provision of access to de-identified administrative data. To date, no non-health administrative data have flowed into the UK LLC TRE.

As with all data in the TRE, the administrative datasets will be de-identified to safeguard Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) participants’ information

Linkages:

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) (UK-WIDE LINKAGE APPROVED): linkage underway with support from Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) and Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (UK-WIDE LINKAGE APPROVED): linkage underway with support from ADR UK and ONS.

Four nations education data (DISCUSSIONS ONGOING): negotiations are ongoing with devolved authorities - more details will follow in due course.

See the Linkages guide for details of which Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) have permitted linkage of their participants to the HMRC and DWP datasets. We will add information about education data in due course.

Note: Even if an LPS permits linkage to an administrative dataset, the individual participants in that LPS can object to UK LLC altogether or object to all or a particular type of data linkage. If a participant objects, no new data about them will be shared, but data that has already been provisioned can still be used until the project ends. Please see the UK LLC Privacy Notice for further information.