Head of GOV.UK.
Neil tweets as @neillyneil
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. From early next week, it will be possible to feature important content on topic pages in the departments and policy section of …
...play catch-up, so we'll probably do this for every sprint from now until we've got them back in check. Multiple, ordered HTML versions with metadata. Ongoing from last sprint, we're...
...correspondence with ministers and officials (like decision letters). These still fit the definition, albeit less clearly. In the middle of that scale sit things like transparency data and responses to...
...2014 national curriculum, published yesterday by the Department for Education (DFE), are all in our HTML publications format. Our new, national curriculum-approved, style for displaying fractions It's a natively digital...
We have now completed the work to allow more flexible curation of documents into "document series". It's a big change, and should mean that you can make much better use of this format to group related content for your users. …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. When updating a published page in the government ("departments and policy") section of GOV.UK, publishers have a choice of marking their …
Publications, news articles and other documents in the government section can now be tagged directly to relevant topics, instead of the topic being inferred automatically via policies. This is a significant change, so publishers in government organisations may want to …
...look into how we might make improvements to reduce the risk and impact of cache-based misadventures. After lots of thoughtful and thorough analysis (about which we will blog separately) we...
Yesterday's release included a new feature to let publishers know the status of uploaded files while they are scanned for viruses. When publishers attach a file to a document, they...
...to overwrite existing attachments with the same filename; fixes for Welsh language translation of the Wales Office homepage, among other things As ever, you can see the stories for yourself...
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.