Member

I want to ask the Minister a couple of questions on the substance of this SI. On data matching, I recognise the increase that has already been mentioned; DESNZ estimates that 2.4 million households—some 28%—might not be data matched. There are consequences of failed data matches. I know that there are plans in place, with letters and everything else, and I recognise that these are new and evolving systems and that data is being shared, but I push the Government to look to the future and at how these data matching systems and their robustness can be improved. The more that we can do to enrol these people automatically, the better, so I push the Government to do more on that.