Using UK iPhone 4 Vodafone micro SIM in iPad

Hello:
I have an iPhone 4 with a UK monthly contract with Vodafone.
I also have an iPad 3G, but do not have a SIM card for it, usually using it through wi-fi. I might eventually get a SIM card for it so that I can use the 3G.
But a thought has come to me. With my iPhone 4 with Vodafone UK I have a data plan as well as voice, but probably never use up the monthly data. I'm just wondering that when I find myself somewhere there is no wi-fi but I can get a 3G signal, is there any way I can take the mico SIM out of my iPhone 4 and put it in to my iPad 3G and use it with my iPad.
I imagine that Vodafone will probably be a bit sniffy about this, and maybe they have already blocked people doing this. I haven't tried it yet because I'm not sure what consequences it might have for messing up my settings etc. on iPhone4 and iPad 3G. But, has anybody done this, and does it work ?
I guess my rationale in wanting to do this is that I am paying Vodafone for data that I am not using on my iPhone, so it is my data which I've paid for, so why can't I access and use it on my iPad 3G if that is technically possible. Vodafone still gets paid, and I get to use the data I've paid for. Simples, no ?!

I gave this a try with vodafone, the carrier information was displayed at the top however when I attempted to connect to the internet I received a message stating that I did not subscribe to a data plan. I haven't played about with it so can't comment on how to get the iPad to recognise that there is a data plan. However, I can confirm that it works with a t-mobile micro sim.
It would be interesting to see if anyone else had had any luck in getting micro sims intended for an iPhone to work with an iPad and how they managed this.

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