Fraud privacy notice 2025

National fraud initiative - data matching exercise privacy notice

Under Part 6 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, Arun District Council is legally required to provide data to the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) for the purposes of the National Fraud Initiative (NFI).

The information submitted will be used by the PSFA to perform data matching exercises to assist in the prevention and detection of fraud.  The use of data in this way does not require the consent of the individuals concerned under data protection legislation or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The information submitted by the council will be compared against data supplied from other sources and matches found will be referred back to the originating organisation to investigate further.

The main NFI exercise takes place every 2 years.  The next data required will be supplied during October 2026 and will include personal details of individuals held by the council for purposes including issuing of taxi driver licences, administering trade creditor payments, processing payroll, administering local authority housing and council tax reduction scheme administration.

On an annual basis, the PSFA also now undertakes data matching in respect of Council Tax single person discount entitlement with the council supplying council tax and electoral register data (next due in December 2025).

If you have any questions, queries or concerns, please visit

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-fraud-initiative

or e-mail Internal.Audit@arun.gov.uk