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Energy Bill

There is a very good case for the amendment. Clearly, the area that we are all concerned about is information security. There are issues where, rightly, people do not want too many others to know which benefits they get and which category they are in; we all entirely understand that. I would particularly like to understand, in terms of the Pensions Bill, which the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, mentioned, what the Government see as the safeguards to the data. In what way are the Government moving forward on data issues in that area? Those have to be robust. As fuel poverty is more and more an issue and a challenge to more people, we need to ensure that the agencies and companies concerned are able to maximise and roll out the programmes that are more desperately needed now than has been the case for some time.