Experian is a recognised and established provider of customer insight and revenue protection services to many hundreds of public sector organisations in central and local government. Its client list includes major government departments, over 70 per cent of UK local authorities, Regional Development Agencies, Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Acute Trusts, Police Forces and Fire & Rescue Services.

Examples of our work include:

• Identifying and reducing tax credits fraud and bogus benefits claims on behalf of HMRC

• Reducing housing benefit fraud in association with DWP
• Helping local authorities recoup lost revenue by reducing fraudulent Single Person Discount claims on council tax
• Improving revenue collections for government agencies and local authorities including the Child Support Agency, DVLA and TV Licensing Authority.
• Working with the UK’s Fire and Rescue Services to reduce the numbers of house fires and fatalities using demographic profiling and customer insight
• Increasing recycling rates for local authorities by helping councils to identify and communicate with people on environmental issues
• Reducing PCT costs and waste through better targeting of essential services
• Helping government agencies improve fitness and health participation with more effective healthy eating and smoking cessation campaigns
• Improving the commissioning and site location of essential services such as GP surgeries, screening centres, pharmacies, day care facilities, employment offices and library services
• Helping government identify and target resources more effectively to areas of social and financial deprivation, reducing child poverty and social exclusion
• Providing economic planning and development services enabling policymakers to understand drivers for growth