Consent form for sharing data with the Energy Saving Trust
We need to check you are eligible for the Energy Company Obligation (ECO4) and/or Great British
Insulation schemes. To do this, we would like to share your information with the Department for
Work and Pensions (DWP) via the Energy Saving Trust who will verify whether or not you are
receiving the relevant benefit(s) to be eligible for either scheme.
Please note that it is not possible for Energy Saving Trust or us, the company using this service, to
see which benefits you are on through this service. DWP will only confirm whether you are in
receipt of a qualifying benefit, not which one. This will not have any impact on future benefit
payments.
If you do not want us to share your data with DWP via Energy Saving Trust, you will be required to
provide copies of documents that provide proof of the benefits you are in receipt of from the
DWP.
For full information on what will happen to the data we collect about you, please see the Privacy
Notice which we will have provided you with separately.
By ticking the box below, and providing your details, you agree to share this data with the DWP
via Energy Saving Trust.
You can contact us to withdraw your consent for us to share your data with DWP via Energy
Saving Trust. If you withdraw consent, the collected data will continue to be processed, however
no new data will be collected or used for further processing.
Occupier / Landlord and Premises Details
The ECO4 and The Great British Insulation Scheme- Templates to evidence private domestic premises and social housing may be used if some evidence is not available. The declaration must be completed and signed by the occupier and the relevant owner, private landlord or the social landlord.
Premises Details
Declarations and sign off ( If NOT Home owner skip this step)
i. Landlord Permission and Blended Funding Declaration (to be completed by the private landlord, social landlord officer, or owner-occupier) Funding for measures delivered under ECO4 and the GB Insulation Scheme cannot be blended with funding from other government schemes or grants. Any measures outside of either schemes delivered to the same property would have to be installed either before or after measures are installed . I can confirm I am the (tick below )of the property/properties listed above and hereby give my consent for the works to be completed. I understand I may be contacted by any organisation carrying out the installation works or providing the funding, Ofgem, or an energy supplier, to verify this declaration as confirmation of permission. By signing this declaration, I acknowledge that funding is being claimed through either the Energy Company Obligation (ECO4) scheme or the Great British Insulation Scheme, and I have not and will not seek any funding for such measures through other government schemes or grants. I hereby declare that all the information given above is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge
ii. Social Housing Declaration (to be completed by the social landlord officer) Social landlord is defined in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 of the Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022. By signing, I, the social landlord, declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that: I can confirm that the SAP or RdSAP assessment is a true reflection of the property prior to the installation of the measure(s). The premises are let at below market rate, or where the premises are currently void, have previously and will be let at below market rate. I hereby declare that all the information given above is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.
iii. Data Use Declaration (to be completed by all relevant document signatories)
I hereby declare that all the information given above is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.
By signing this declaration, I confirm that I have received and read a privacy notice24 to explain how my data will be used, and that this has been shared with all members in the household who may be included or named in documents or information provided in the installation of this energy efficiency measure.
I hereby declare that all the information provided in this form is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge, I confirm this by signing below.
Child Benefit Self-Declaration
ii. Occupier declaration
I, the occupier of the premises detailed above, declare that I am in receipt of Child Benefit, and that for the corresponding number of qualifying children or young persons within this benefit, the threshold for single or combined annual gross income (from all sources) detailed in the table overleaf is not breached.
I confirm that the information provided in this declaration is true and accurate
I, the relevant third party, declare that, to the best of my knowledge, the person living at this premises detailed above is in receipt of Child Benefit; and is not in receipt of any of the other qualifying benefits listed in schedule 2 of the Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2022