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<p>The Government is committed to making better use of data, including reducing data
duplication, to keep pace with rising public expectations and the availability and
potential of new technology to deliver better services at lower cost to taxpayers.
This is why we have introduced data sharing measures in the Digital Economy Act, which:</p><p>-allow
public authorities to share personal data with other public authorities in specific
contexts in order to improve the welfare of the individual in question, for example
the Troubled Families programme;</p><p>-allow public authorities to share limited
information with energy companies to apply energy bill rebates or to provide households
with energy saving measures; and</p><p>-allow public sector access to civil registration
information (such as birth, marriage, civil partnership and death information) on
a more consistent and transparent basis.</p>
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