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<p>The Warm Home Discount consultation, published in December 2011, included questions
on data sharing.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to the Warm Home Discount, the Energy Rebate
Scheme, which ran for one year, used data-matching (of DWP and energy suppliers’ data)
to identify a group of pensioners likely to be vulnerable to fuel poverty, so that
their electricity supplier could award a one-off rebate to their electricity bill.
This earlier scheme ran for one year.</p><p> </p><p>DWP Social Researchers carried
out a small-scale qualitative evaluation of the scheme, involving telephone interviews
with customers to investigate reactions to their personal data being used in this
way – this includeding issues around privacy, security and data sharing, and the broader
concept of data use in Government.</p><p> </p><p>The findings of the research and
consultation responses can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-warm-home-discount-scheme"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-warm-home-discount-scheme</a></p><p>
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