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The existing homepage didn't make it clear that government statistics are produced independently of ministers. We've changed it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the heading 'Departments and policy' was misleading because the section includes other agencies and public bodies. Secondly, …
We’re hearing some concerns about how moving to GOV.UK will affect your visibility in search engines. In fact, we think many organisations are likely to benefit from the strength of the single government domain. GOV.UK’s status as a large, authoritative …
...policy content that sponsoring departments already have on the site, or by creating a new supporting page. Policy supporting pages (also called 'supporting detail') are where the department and, by...
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. In February we blogged about our work to get GOV.UK ready for the third big group of users, specialist users. Specialists …
Associate Product Manager John Turnbull sets out how we're getting GOV.UK ready for the thousands of specialists who will use the site after more than 300 government websites move to GOV.UK later this year. As Neil outlined in his blog post, …
A summary of the changes we've made to GOV.UK site since early March, and what we’ll be up to in the next week or so. What's new and noteworthy Over the last couple of weeks, stuff we’ve done includes: released new …
A content designer looks at each content request coming in on a particular day (this happens on a rota system). For any specific content request they receive, they can: send it through to be scheduled for a detailed review and, …
In February, UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) moved the now defunct UK Border Agency website to GOV.UK. Over the course of moving hundreds of sites, we have encountered all manner of glitches and problems so we have distilled what we …
Here's a glossary of technical terms you might come across during the transition to GOV.UK. AKA domain An ‘AKA domain’ creates a parallel version of a site (or domain) for our redirection software so we can check redirects are correct …
This blog was updated on 11 March 2015. Every year, usually in March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer presents their Budget to Parliament. It's a major event, so here's a few ways to stay joined up. This advice also applies to …
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.