GOV.UK
2 billion and counting
GOV.UK has just passed 2 billion visits since the site went live in October 2012.
Neil Williams
Head of GOV.UK.
Neil tweets as @neillyneil
GOV.UK isn't finished
We’re proud of GOV.UK, and how much we’ve achieved in such a short time. But an unintended consequence of that pride might be that we sometimes give the impression we think GOV.UK is perfect.
The end of the beginning for GOV.UK
A project team in GDS is working to make sure GOV.UK can meet the needs of all its users, including specialists and professionals, when it becomes a fully-realised “single domain for government” later this year. Neil Williams, who leads the …
A year of departments and policy all in one place
Last month we celebrated the first anniversary of GOV.UK’s launch. Today marks one year since the first two departmental domains were switched over, and the “Departments and policy” section (then known as Inside Government) went fully live. Today we have …
On dropping the name “Inside Government” from GOV.UK
There’s an adage in writing circles known as “kill your darlings”, based on a quote by William Faulkner (“In writing, you must kill all your darlings”). The theory goes that writers should be ruthless about cutting the bits of their …
24 departments later
Martha said we needed a revolution. As of this moment, 10 Downing Street, the Deputy PM’s office, all 24 of the UK's central government departments and its embassies around the world are now sharing a single, joined-up presence on the web at …
Widgets, badges and blog bling. What stuff can I embed on GOV.UK?
One of the questions publishers in government departments are asking us a lot at the moment is "Can I embed [insert name of web app here] on GOV.UK?" In the spirit of "publish, don't send" this blog post sets out …
Marking one year since the Inside Government beta
A year ago today we launched the beta of Inside Government on GOV.UK - a working, public demo of a product which to many people had previously seemed unimaginable. The site was a live test of what multiple departments sharing …
Cabinet Office move turns Inside Government up to 11
Cabinet Office has become the ninth department to move its corporate and policy information to GOV.UK. The Cabinet Office move brings with it the Offices of the Leaders of the Houses of Commons and Lords, two ministerial departments in their …
Scotland Office joins GOV.UK
This morning the Scotland Office became the eighth ministerial department to move its corporate publishing over to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK. Today’s release also introduces a new topic to bring all government content about Scotland into a single …