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Local authorities opt for QAS Gateway

Address management solution will help harness the power of the National Land and Property Gazetteer.

Three local authorities are to deploy Experian QAS's address verification software, QAS Gateway, to help them manage the citizen address data held on their systems more efficiently.

The London Borough of Brent, Surrey County Council and Manchester City Council will use QAS Gateway in conjunction with the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG). The NLPG contains over 30 million residential, business and non-mailing addresses and is used extensively by local authorities in England and Wales.

By integrating the NLPG with QAS Gateway, the local authorities will be able to:

• Ensure the accuracy of new address data entering their systems
• Prevent duplicate citizen records
• Verify and update existing data, to assist data sharing and migration projects
• Link addresses/citizens across departments, using a unique property reference number (UPRN)
• Append additional datasets - such as Experian's Mosaic Public Sector citizen-profiling system - to provide even greater insight into the types of people accessing public services

QAS Gateway will help local authorities eliminate the costs associated with managing inaccurate and incorrectly-formatted address data across multiple departments. The Centre for Economics and Business Research estimates that the efficiency gains from using NLPG data could save local government £54.4 million per annum.¹

"Improving address quality is an important part of our ongoing Client Index project, which has built a true single citizen view of those living and working in the area," says Chris Waterman, Client Index Project Manager at London Borough of Brent. "Introducing QAS software will enable us to exploit the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (a local version of the NLPG) and ensure we capture better quality data, first time."

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