Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 40
40
Accepted in Part
Provide update and proposals to broaden data sharing for effective fraud combatting.
Recommendation
The Government should provide an update of its review of the legislation in respect of the sharing of data with a Specified Anti-Fraud Organisation. The Government should also look more broadly at the operation of data-sharing legislation with regard to the tackling of fraud and bring forward proposals to ensure data can be shared for the purposes of combatting fraud as soon as possible. (Paragraph 155) 42 Fraud and the Justice System
Government Response Summary
The government is supporting data sharing for economic crime prevention through the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, which aim to ease information sharing and disapply civil liability. It continues to consider next steps for the Specified Anti-Fraud Organisation regime.
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government
Accepted in Part
Sharing data is an important way to identify and disrupt fraudsters from exploiting platforms, services and people to commit their crimes. The Government is clear that this should be a priority for companies and organisations and encourages efforts in this space. The Government is taking two important steps to support information sharing to prevent economic crime. Firstly, GDPR establishes the prevention of fraud as a legitimate interest for sharing information. The DCMS-led Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will make it easier for businesses to share information under GDPR for the purposes of preventing economic crime, including fraud, by providing greater assurance around the lawful foundation a business has for sharing data. Secondly, Reforms in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill will also enable businesses, in certain situations, to share information more easily for the purposes of preventing, investigating or detecting economic crime by disapplying civil liability for breaches of confidentiality for firms who share information to combat economic crime. The Government continues to consider the appropriate next steps for the Specified Anti-Fraud Organisation regime.