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The Warm Home Discount consultation, published in December 2011, included questions on data sharing.<\/p>
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Prior to the Warm Home Discount, the Energy Rebate Scheme, which ran for one year, used data-matching (of DWP and energy suppliers\u2019 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>
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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 \u2013 this includeding issues around privacy, security and data sharing, and the broader concept of data use in Government.<\/p>
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The findings of the research and consultation responses can be found here:<\/p>