We’ve retired Static, an application that was part of every page on the GOV.UK website. Learn more about how this will save time, streamline our technology, and allow us to make improvements more easily.
Here are some of the biggest things we're working on in the GOV.UK government team this sprint: Allow multiple HTML documents on one publication: before now, HTML documents behaved differently from other attachments on a publication page. You couldn't order …
We recently introduced a new iteration of the Child Benefit tax calculator on GOV.UK and I wanted to share how we got there. The core team I was part of a small multi-disciplinary team brought together to work on this …
We've made some big changes to the government publisher today, with the aim of making life easier for editors and improving the quality of publishing on gov.uk/government. Firstly, there are 3 new filters on the left hand side of the …
Many government departments use Citizen Space to host online consultations. We think this is great because we want to encourage running consultations online - and it’s worth mentioning that there are other online participation tools, e.g. SurveyMonkey, for which the …
I think one of the most frustrating things that a non-agile team would have to deal with when working with an agile team is the “backlog”. What does it mean when the mainstream team say to someone “we’ve added it …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Tables in HTML publications can now be made into barcharts automatically. These charts follow style guide recommendations and are accessible to …
I’ve been looking at the analytics for document series pages, particularly the distribution of pages, how users were getting to them and where they were going next. This is because, as we wrote recently, the product team are working on …
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...
Usually, users want to see the latest and most up to date information on a given policy, announcement, consultation etc. But they may also want to know how it has changed. We have this information, because our publishing tool requires …
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.