Guidance

Digital Economy Bill Part 5: Digital Government

Part 5 of the Digital Economy Bill concerns sharing information between public authorities

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (2017 to 2023)
• Published: 5 July 2016

Documents

Better Public Services Factsheet

PDF, 212 KB, 4 pages

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Fraud and Debt Factsheet

PDF, 126 KB, 3 pages

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Research and Statistics Factsheet

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Consultation on Better Use of Data

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/better-use-of-data-in-government

Draft Digital Government (Disclosure of Information) Regulations

PDF, 134 KB, 5 pages

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Draft Digital Government data sharing codes of practice

PDF, 673 KB, 99 pages

Digital Government impact assessments

PDF, 3.13 MB, 135 pages

Details

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

Published 5 July 2016