Issue - meetings

The Stevenage Strategic Director (Resources) submitted a report updating Members on the ability of the Revenues and Benefits Shared Service to share Housing Benefit customer data with other services at Stevenage Borough Council.

Members were advised that 3 areas had been identified where data could be shared, as detailed in Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ to the report now submitted.  Officers would work proactively where a Stevenage service made a request to work with the Revenues and Benefits Shared Service.

Members were advised that Officers would prepare a draft of the data sharing protocol with a final version anticipated in April 2014.  The Committee received the report.

RESOLVED – that (A) the current position regarding the sharing of data between the Revenues and Benefits Shared Service and other Stevenage Borough Council services be noted; and

(B)   the plans for the introduction of a data sharing protocol be noted.