Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 1: Public Service Delivery Section 37: Disclosure of information by gas and electricity suppliers etc
This section allows gas and electricity suppliers (and any other permitted recipient of information under the previous section) to share information with specified persons, for the purpose of reducing the energy costs of, or improving energy efficiency or the health and financial well-being of, people living in fuel poverty. This section will enable energy suppliers to share details of their customers with the public authority, or with a person providing services to the public authority, who will then be able to ‘flag’ which of the suppliers’ customers should be eligible for assistance under the fuel poverty measure.