Digital Economy Bill Part 5: Digital Government
Part 5 of the Digital Economy Bill concerns sharing information between public authorities
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Part 5 of the bill will:
- improve public services through better use of data whilst safeguarding citizens’ privacy
- allow government to identify persons eligible for benefits or services to enable help to reach those in need
- improve government’s approach to combating fraud against the public sector
- provide better support to citizens to help manage their debt to the public sector more effectively
- cut the compliance burden on business by allowing statistics to be collected from data already held by public authorities