Over 700,000 people receive email updates from GOV.UK. These notifications help people find out when government information they’re interested in changes. At GOV.UK, we’re working on making it easier for people to sign up to receive the notifications they need, …
The GOV.UK Infrastructure team maintain and improve the systems that create GOV.UK. This includes the GOV.UK website as well as the tools used by publishers and developers. Earlier this year we ran a discovery and alpha into hosting and deploying …
When we first created GOV.UK we did it based on the assumption that users shouldn’t need to know who provides a service to be able to use it. Users just want to complete a task - they shouldn’t have to …
We’ve consolidated the templates used by short text content types on GOV.UK.
The look and feel of the worldwide pages on GOV.UK has changed. We’ve made these changes to make things better, both for users and for GOV.UK publishers.
We’re working to make tagging content to the new taxonomy a simple, routine step in the GOV.UK publishing process. The Finding Things team have been creating the first complete taxonomy for GOV.UK, starting with Education. This taxonomy powers a new …
The Finding Things team have been working with the Department for Education and agencies to make it easier for people to find what they need on GOV.UK.
You might have noticed that the design of GOV.UK hasn't changed much for a while. Or at least, not visibly.
GOV.UK has been working hard to migrate formats to use the new publishing platform over the last year.
The migration team is migrating GOV.UK’s formats to the new publishing platform. This will mean that the template consolidation team can reduce the number of templates used on GOV.UK making it easier to manage. What are formats? Formats are basically …
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.