Information sharing agreements under chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 of part 5 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 register

To identify where differences in accounts filed between HMRC and Companies House over the last 48 months indicate fraudulent activity

Company names and registration numbers, selected accounts items, and the names of associated company directors, partners, and third party accountants where relevant.

Government Secure Email

To identify whether there is potential fraud in the Help to Buy Scheme, relating to the overinflaton of income (fraud by misrepresentation) and the failure to declare existing property ownership at the point of application (fraud by omission).

Data on earnings and income, on self-assessment, on benefits and credits, and on property ownership will be disclosed by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to Homes England

Government Secure Email

To provide benefit eligibility checks to support Shell Energy provide financial assistance to domestic energy customers under an Industry Initiative scheme delivered as part of the Warm Home Discount Scheme.

Shell Energy will share a unique identifier, name, date of birth and address for each customer. DWP will return the unique identifier only, with a flag which will indicate the result of the eligibility check (i.e. matched/not matched/unverified).

Encrypted files via email

To provide benefit eligibility checks to support delivery of the ECO scheme.

EST will share a unique identifier, name, date of birth and address for each customer. DWP will return the unique identifier only, with a flag which will indicate the result of the eligibility check (i.e. matched/not matched/unverified).

Encrypted files via email

To provide benefit eligibility checks to support delivery of WHS.

EST will share a unique identifier, name, date of birth and address for each customer. DWP will return the unique identifier only, with a flag which will indicate the result of the eligibility check (i.e. matched/not matched/unverified).

Encrypted files via email

The National Fraud Initiative (NFI) is the Cabinet Office’s UK-wide data matching exercise. It is exploring the potential value and effectiveness of using HMRC data to better identify and prevent fraud. We will share records containing personal data with HMRC. These will be matched against HMRC records and additional HMRC information appended and fed back to the NFI to be evaluated as to how it may improve the NFI national exercise.

Data items will relate to: ●Employed and self-employed earnings ●Household composition ●Property ownership

Secure File Transfer (batch basis)

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

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.

Egress file sharing