- Purpose
- To test the matching of two data sets to enable Government to better identify households at risk of fuel poverty and improve the targeting of support to tackle fuel poverty
- Information sharing benefits
- The testing will help BEIS understand the feasibility of the matching between the two datasets; identify areas of error or non-match and investigate mitigations in order to maximise the datasets' matching success rates. The data matching mechanism would enable more effective targeting of fuel poverty policies.
- Disclosed information
- Valuation Office Agency (VOA) data relating to property characteristics will be shared with the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for ranking according to potential energy costs. Data to be onwardly shared with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for the matching feasibility exercise; where the relationship between property data and benefits data will be compared
- Information sharing method
- Secure File Transfer
- Contact
- dataprotection@beis.gov.uk
- Start date
- 2019-02-18
- End date
- 2019-12-31
- Review date
- 2019-07-01
- Retention period
- P3Y11M
- Isa status
- Complete
- Id
- 4
- Notes
- no change