Learn about our plans for GOV.UK Chat, the AI-powered chat system we’ve built as an easier, quicker way to interact with government.
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We ran a slightly smaller content clinic this month, due to the Tube strike. But there was still plenty to talk …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. All content on GOV.UK should start with needs. Before creating a detailed guide, you must specify the user need. We've released …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Every now and then, changes need to be made to the list of government ministers on GOV.UK to reflect new appointments. …
We’re shortly releasing an update to GOV.UK search that we are calling ‘unified search’. This update presents search results from all of GOV.UK in a single list, rather than the tabbed page layout separating the ‘Services and information’ content from …
Michael Lyons, a content designer at Defra, writes about finding a workaround for splitting tables containing multiple links in Whitehall Publisher. Creating tables in Whitehall Publisher can, initially at least, be vexing. Particularly as the markdown is (understandably) designed to …
For many months, my team have been working on new features to meet user needs that GOV.UK doesn’t currently support and which agencies need before they can transition to GOV.UK. One of these features is a filtered search (popularly known …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've introduced publishing workflow to corporate information pages, for example, 'working for...', 'procurement at...' and 'media enquiries'. Previously, any changes you …
Antony Hopker is Strategic Communications Manager at Education Funding Agency, which manages £54 billion of funding a year to support all state-provided education for 8 million children aged 3 to 16, and 1.6 million young people aged 16 to 19. We …
Our bi-weekly summary of what we’ve done recently to develop GOV.UK, and what’s coming up. What we’ve done In the past couple of weeks, we’ve: launched a tool which lets specialists filter Competition and Markets Authority cases improved specialist browse …
We blogged about our plans for HMRC manuals many months ago, and since then we’ve spoken to more users of the manuals and made minor changes to our designs. Now we’ve started work to put one full manual online in …
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.