An article relating to this blog post on Finextra:
Credit referencing agencies team for ID fraud service
UK consumers that fall victim to identity theft will now need to contact just one credit referencing agency - rather than three - to restore their credit records.
See article
Actually, CRAs should be made to contact - independently - the subject whenever there is a change to their status (for example, a credit check is requested by a lender) and receive independent confirmation from the subject of the change/permission to respond
to the check request. This would significantly reduce the prospects for credit records to be hijacked/tampered with in the first instance.