The State Pension Credit (Disclosure of Information) (Electricity Suppliers) Regulations 2010

Disclosure of information by the Secretary of State

5.—(1) The Secretary of State (or a person providing services to the Secretary of State) may supply an electricity supplier with the information referred to in paragraph (2) about a relevant SPC claimant for use by that supplier in connection with the purposes referred to in paragraph (3).

(2) The information is—

(a) the name, any known alias and address of a relevant SPC claimant;

(b) the name, any known alias and address of the partner of a relevant SPC claimant;

(c) the name and any known alias of a person appointed to act on behalf of a relevant SPC claimant.

(3) The purposes are—

(a) to identify domestic customers who qualify or may qualify for an automatic award;

(b) to establish a domestic customer’s entitlement to an automatic award;

(c) to provide domestic customers with an automatic award;

(d) to contact domestic customers who have received an automatic award with a view to—

(i) offering energy efficiency measures;

(ii) delivering or helping to deliver energy efficiency measures;

(iii) offering to place their names on a register of persons to be afforded priority services by the supplier.