Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 1: Public Service Delivery Section 38: Disclosure of information to water and sewerage undertakers etc
This section allows the persons specified in Schedule 6 (public service delivery: specified persons for the purposes of sections 38 and 39) to the Act to disclose information to water and sewerage undertakers (an "undertaker") in England and Wales. The disclosure must be in connection with a water poverty measure listed in subsection (3).
	The disclosure must be with the intention that it will be used by an undertaker in connection with provision of its charging scheme under section 143 of the Water Industry Act 1991. This section enables undertakers to receive information from specified persons in order to help identify eligibility for support schemes for the purposes of reducing water poverty.
	Subsections (5) to (8) enable the "appropriate national authority" to make regulations to amend the list of specified persons in Schedule 6, to amend the list of water poverty measures in subsection (3) in connection with which information may be disclosed under the section and to amend subsection (1) so as to add or remove persons permitted to receive information under the section. See section 45 for how to identify the appropriate national authority in particular cases.
	For the purposes of Chapter 1, a person lives in water poverty if they are a member of a household living on a lower income in a home which cannot be supplied with water at a reasonable cost or cannot be supplied with sewerage services at a reasonable cost.