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Launch of new data sharing consultation 17 March 2016
The Government has launched a consultation which aims to maximise opportunities for effective data sharing in public sector organisations.
The consultation Better use of data in government , focuses on data held by public sector organisations and will assess how data is accessed and used. It seeks to improve data security across government whilst making citizens’ lives easier. The consultation aims to maximise opportunities for effective data sharing and build on areas of good practice. The Cabinet Office and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been working closely together to prevent electoral fraud through the sharing and use of data to confirm legitimacy of applications to vote. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) have also developed a service, allowing people to view all their driving licence information, such as the amount of penalty points. It is also possible to share this data with car insurers or hire companies, where you consent for this to happen. improve outcomes for the public by ensuring public authorities have the data they need to deliver the right service to the right citizen at the right time, for example around running the Troubled Families programme support the administering of fuel poverty payments enable access to civil registration data, for example births, deaths and marriages – this prevents authorities sending letters to people who are deceased reduce the billions of pounds lost and cost to the taxpayer in preventing, detecting and dealing with fraud against the public sector help citizens manage their debt more effectively and reduce the estimated £24.1 billion of overdue debt owed to government enable the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to access detailed administrative data from across government and businesses to provide more accurate, frequent and timely statistics and to update how the census is managed, rather than using surveys support accredited researchers to access and link data to carry out research for public benefit. The consultation asks people to consider the proposals and whether they are appropriate. It looks at how government can share data to:
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Better use of data in government – open consultation 12 April 2016
The Cabinet Office is currently running a consultation which will close on 22 April 2016. The consultation is seeking comments and views from as wide a range of people as possible.
In the forward from Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP confirms the issues this consultation looks to address “When data is used effectively, everyone benefits from better services that can be delivered at a lower cost to taxpayers. Citizens too have a strong expectation that data will be used responsibly, proportionately and securely ensuring that their data is respected and handled sensitively. As the volume of data and our capacity to deliver digital services grow, the opportunities to improve services increase — but so too must our governance and safeguards to best protect our data against increasing cyber security threats.” The paper works on the premise that information sharing between public authorities, where the information is well governed, proportionate and secure, ‘ can improve the lives of citizens and go on to support decisions on the economy which allow businesses to flourish, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector ’.
This consultation looks at enabling greater information sharing between public authorities and the proposals fall into 3 categories:
Improving public services
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