The government should share more data on personal debt with credit reference agencies to help short-term credit providers make better decisions, the Association of British Credit Unions (ABCU) has warned. Mark Lyonette, chief executive of the ABCU, told a parliamentary committee that there was a “paucity of information” on borrowers on low incomes, with information worsening on borrowers at the bottom of the pay scale. “We have been lobbying over the paucity of information from credit reference agencies, particularly among those further down the income scale,” Lyonette told the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) committee....Read more here--> Government urged to share data