The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) Regulations 2012

• (b) determining a person’s entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction under a council tax reduction scheme.

• (c) preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, an offence relating to a council tax reduction.

Holding purposes

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The purposes prescribed under section 131(3) of the 2012 Act in relation to council tax as purposes for which relevant information must be held by a qualifying person in order for them to use or supply it as set out in that subsection, are—

• (a) making a council tax reduction scheme;

• (b) determining a person’s entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction under a council tax reduction scheme.

• (c) preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, an offence relating to a council tax reduction.

Using purposes

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• (1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person for any purpose listed in regulation 13.

• (2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed—

• (a) under section 131(3)(a) of the 2012 Act as purposes for which the information may be used by that qualifying person; and

• (b) subject to regulation 15, under section 131(3)(b) of the 2012 Act as purposes for use in relation to which the information may be supplied by that qualifying person to another qualifying person.

• (3) The purposes are any purposes connected with—

• (a) making a council tax reduction scheme;

• (b) determining a person’s entitlement or continued entitlement to a reduction under a council tax reduction scheme;

• (c) preventing, detecting, securing evidence of, or prosecuting the commission of, an offence relating to a council tax reduction;

• (d) any proceedings in connection with a reduction under a council tax reduction scheme before—

• (i) the Valuation Tribunal for England, established under Part 1 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

• (ii) the Valuation Tribunal for Wales, established under Part 2 of Schedule 11 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988; or

• (iii) The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland or the Upper Tribunal for Scotland, established by section 1 of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014;

• (e) the purposes referred to in regulation 6(1)(a)(i) or (iii), (b) or (c).

Excepted matters

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• (1) Subject to paragraph (2), regulation 14 does not permit relevant information held by a Welsh body or a Scottish body to be supplied by that body to another qualifying person for use in relation to that purpose.

• (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if the information was supplied by, or is derived from, information supplied to another person by the Secretary of State (or a person providing services to the Secretary of State) or a person engaged in the administration of housing benefit.

Using purposes connected with a troubled families programme

Using purposes connected with the healthy start scheme

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• (1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by the Secretary of State for Health or by a person providing services to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care , as a qualifying person for the purpose listed in regulation 6(1)(a)(ii).

• (2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed—

• (a) under section 131(3)(a) of the 2012 Act as purposes for which the information may be used by that qualifying person; and

• (b) under section 131(3)(b) of the 2012 Act as purposes for use in relation to which the information may be supplied by that qualifying person to another qualifying person.

• (3) The purposes are any purposes connected with the healthy start scheme.

• (4) This regulation permits relevant information to be supplied to another qualifying person only where that other qualifying person is the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care or a person providing services to the Secretary of State for Health relating to the healthy start scheme.

Using purposes connected with local welfare provision

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• (1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person listed in regulation 10(1)(d) or section 131(11)(a) to (c) of the 2012 Act for the purpose listed in regulation 6(1)(a)(iv).

• (2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed—

• (a) under section 131(3)(a) of the 2012 Act as purposes for which the information may be used by a qualifying person; and

• (b) subject to regulation 11, under section 131(3)(b) of the 2012 Act as purposes for use in relation to which the information may be supplied by that qualifying person to another qualifying person.

• (3) The purposes are any purposes connected with local welfare provision.

• (4) This regulation permits relevant information to be supplied to another qualifying person only where that other qualifying person is listed in regulation 10(1)(d) or section 131(11)(a) to (c) of the 2012 Act.

Qualifying persons

Excepted matters

PART 5 — INFORMATION-SHARING IN RELATION TO SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS UNDER SECTION 131(2) OF THE 2012 ACT

Holding purposes

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The purposes prescribed under section 131(2) of the 2012 Act (supply of information to the Secretary of State or service provider for purposes relating to relevant social security benefit) as purposes for which relevant information must be held by a qualifying person in order for them to supply it as set out in that subsection, are any of the following—

• (a) determining whether a person occupies as their home a dwelling which falls within paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006;

• (b) determining whether a person has, or is likely to have, difficulty in managing their financial affairs;

• (c) where the qualifying person is a local authority in England—

• (i) identifying households eligible for support under a troubled families programme;

• (ii) providing appropriate types of advice, support and assistance to members of such households under such programmes; and

• (iii) monitoring and evaluating such programmes.

• (d) where the qualifying person is listed in regulation 10(1)(e)—

• (i) providing advice, assistance or support to a universal credit claimant under a universal support initiative; and

• (ii) monitoring and evaluating the provision of such advice, assistance or support.

Prescribed purposes relating to a relevant social security benefit

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• (1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person for any purpose listed in regulation 16.

• (2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed under section 131(2) of the 2012 Act as purposes for which the information may be supplied to the Secretary of State or a person providing services to the Secretary of State.

• (3) Those purposes are—

• (a) in relation to the purposes prescribed in regulation 16(a) and (b), any purpose connected with the administration of universal credit;

• (b) in relation to any purpose prescribed in regulation 16(c)—

• (i) any purpose connected with providing appropriate types of advice, support and assistance to a person in connection with their receipt of a relevant social security benefit; and

• (ii) any purpose connected with monitoring and evaluating the effect of participation in a troubled families programme on receipt of a relevant social security benefit.

• (c) in relation to either of the purposes prescribed in regulation 16(d)—

• (i) providing advice, assistance or support to a universal credit claimant under a universal support initiative; and

• (ii) monitoring and evaluating the provision of such advice, assistance or support.

Using purposes connected with a universal support initiative

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• (1) This regulation applies to relevant information held by a qualifying person listed in regulation 10(1)(e) for the purposes listed in regulation 6(1)(q).

• (2) The purposes set out in paragraph (3) are prescribed—

• (a) under section 131(3)(a) of the 2012 Act as purposes for which the information may be used by that qualifying person; and

• (b) under section 131(3)(b) of the 2012 Act as purposes for use in relation to which the information may be supplied by that qualifying person to another qualifying person.

• (3) The purposes are any purposes connected with—

• (a) providing advice, assistance or support to a universal credit claimant under a universal support initiative; and

• (b) monitoring and evaluating the provision of such advice, assistance or support.

• (4) This regulation permits relevant information to be supplied to another qualifying person only where that other qualifying person is listed in regulation 10(1)(e).

Qualifying persons

Excepted matters

Prescription of Welsh body

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Careers Careers Wales is prescribed as a Welsh body for the purpose of section 131 of the 2012 Act.