Third Delegated Legislation Committee
7 September 2026
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Third Delegated Legislation Committee House of Commons
00:07 - 00:12
Speaker 2
The draft Digital Government (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2026.
00:12 - 00:14
Speaker 1
I call the Minister to move the motion.
00:14 - 01:46
Speaker 4
I'm grateful and it's a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Desmond. I beg to move that the Committee has considered the draft Digital Government (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2026, and I'm pleased to be speaking to these regulations, which were laid before the House in draft on the 6th of July. The regulations before the Committee make three targeted amendments. They improve information sharing powers in the Digital Economy Act 2017 to support people living in fuel poverty. Firstly, these amendments enable a specified public authority to share information with energy suppliers for the purpose of identifying and supporting people living in fuel poverty who are experiencing energy debt.
Secondly, the amendments were laid by the then Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on the 6th of July, specifying that under the existing fuel poverty objective, it would enable the government department responsible for data policy to support work assisting people living in fuel poverty, including the National Data Library kickstarter project. Following the machinery of government changes announced in July, that responsibility is transferring to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Any technical changes needed to reflect that transfer will be made separately and will not affect how these measures operate. A third technical measure clarifies that the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero can rely on fuel poverty objective in accordance with a transfer of relevant functions to it in 2023. Taken together, these practical and proportionate amendments will help ensure that support reaches the right households at the right time.
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