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How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

GOV.UK Pay £8 billion. Showing GOV.UK Pay screen on an iPad and a mobile phone

How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

Since launching in 2016 GOV.UK Pay has now processed £8 billion in card payments online and over the phone. Here we look at how we’ve used data to grow the product to this milestone.

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GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events

Posted by: Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 8 March 2016 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Photo of a woman giving a talk in front of an audience. Slide on the screen reads "Transparent and collaborative". Audience look engaged, and speaker is gesticulating.

Equality and diversity matters a lot to me, and to everyone here at GDS. I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago in my role as Cabinet Office LGB&TI...

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Guest post: building a digital standard for local government

Posted by: Phil Rumens - Digital Services Manager, West Berkshire Council, Posted on: 1 March 2016 - Categories: Digital strategy, Service design
Local government visitors at GDS

Phil Rumens is the Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council and the vice-chair of LocalGov Digital. In this post, he talks about creating a Local Government Digital Standard.

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Let's talk about service patterns

Posted by: Lou Downe - former Director for Design and Service Standards, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 29 February 2016 - Categories: Service design
Caseworkers at one of Defra's Environment Agency’s offices

...birth and death of cattle, movement of livestock, getting a fishing license - they all amounted to the same thing. They were all licenses, of a sort. They all involved...

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Writing content for everyone

Posted by: Roz Strachan, Posted on: 23 February 2016 - Categories: Accessibility, Content design
Writing content for everyone

I work as a content designer on the Digital Marketplace and for over a year now, I’ve also been working as a volunteer in adult literacy classes. I’ve been using...

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Hosting codebar at GDS

Posted by: Tatiana Soukiassian, Posted on: 19 February 2016 - Categories: GDS team
Photo of students and coaches of Codebar working at the GDS offices in Aviation House, Holborn.

...up to go through tutorials or build projects over two hours in a variety of languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, and more. We received good feedback and we will now...

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Transforming government together

Posted by: Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 18 February 2016 - Categories: Sprint
Stephen Foreshew-Cain Sprint 16 closing speech

Every now and then we do well by taking stock of where we are and to map out the future. Sprint 16 was one of those moments.

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11 February 2016: Sprint 16 live blog

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 11 February 2016 - Categories: Sprint
Audience during this morning's sessions

Look back at #Sprint16 as it happened with the GDS live blog.

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Notes from a Swedish explorer

Posted by: Lars Boström, Posted on: 9 February 2016 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills, User research
Profile picture of Lars Bostrom

...of doing things. When building the web development part of the new service we tried out agile methodologies and started to follow the GDS blog, - learning from GDS’s work...

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A hack day to test Government as a Platform

Posted by: Rory Smith, Posted on: 5 February 2016 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms, Events
Hackers at the GaaP hack day

Last week, GDS hosted a hack day for developers from across government.

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Professions and boldness

Posted by: Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 1 February 2016 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Janet Hughes

...people can work like that, in line with the Civil Service Code. People need to work in an environment where that sort of thinking and behaviour is supported. I usually...

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