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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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’ve been asked a few questions recently about copyright on commercial images used on GOV.UK. And we’ve worked with colleagues at …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. In response to Alice and Neil’s blog post introducing collection pages, we received some Zendesk tickets asking for help making document …
Here are the most significant things we’re working on in the government section of GOV.UK in this sprint: Improve policy supporting detail pages. The supporting detail pages for policies explain the government schemes used to implement each policy. For example, on the …
We’ve just started to look in a bit more detail about how users are interacting with news pages on GOV.UK. But we already have some interesting early findings, which we wanted to share. Our data is based on the 608 …
Here are some of the things we're working on over the next couple of weeks: Prioritisation The team is continuing to prioritise the transition timeline for all 330+ agencies and arm’s length bodies (AALBs). With department leads, we are prioritising …
This round-up provides links to blog posts that are particularly useful during transition. GOV.UK One year on James Thornett, Head of Product Management, wrote about the data performance and things we’ve learned in the past 12 months on GOV.UK. Transition …
A small team at GDS is working on the User Needs project. The first thing we’re doing is building Maslow - a tool to capture user needs. In the next few weeks, agencies that are transitioning to GOV.UK will be able to …
A few weeks ago, GOV.UK had more than 2 million visits in one day for the first time, on Monday 30 September. It wasn’t long before we reached another milestone, with more than 10 million visits in one week from …
...to a date in the past like you can on most other formats. Now you can. Speech metadata is clearer. We used to inject information about the location and type...
As important as it is to highlight the successes of GOV.UK, it's just as important that we discuss our mistakes. A little over a week ago we began receiving reports of attachments that were incorrectly ordered on the site, or …
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.