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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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Weekend links: Environment Agency blog, weeknotes, interning at FCO and more

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 5 April 2014 - Categories: GDS team

If you find a link you think we'd like, message us @GDSTeam Take a look at the recently launched Environment Agency blog. Learn about work experience opportunities at the Foreign...

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Digital marches on: rising take-up, falling costs

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 2 April 2014 - Categories: Data, Digital strategy
Cost per transaction down 10% in real terms

The Transactions Explorer has enabled government to track progress on its key performance indicators for the first time.

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A year in the making - the Digital by Default Service Standard

Posted by: Tom Scott, Posted on: 1 April 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Service design
Digital by Default Service Standard

Today the Digital by Default Service Standard comes into full force.

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Weekend links: Royal Messengers, betas, social media and more

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 29 March 2014 - Categories: GDS team
GDS weekend links

...blog. The DVLA digital team are getting excited about their move to a public beta. Want to find out more about betas on GOV.UK? GDS design notes has the answers....

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Inside a service manager's head

Posted by: Giles Turnbull, Posted on: 28 March 2014 - Categories: Service design, Transformation
Inside a service manager's head

We talk a lot about building "digital services so good, people prefer to use them"; but we don't often talk about the people who are going to run those services.

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Hacks - using technology and data to change things

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 25 March 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Drupal Camp

...to my fellow judges - Eddie, Stef and Max. Follow Mark on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts. Thanks to Amazee Labs for the images, more...

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Weekend links: JavaScript, code-breaking, Twitter and more

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 22 March 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Image of Alan Turing courtesy of Michael Dales under a Creative Commons licence

...creating a world-class research institute specialising in data science dedicated to British WW2 code-breaker Alan Turing. Want to find out more about the budget? You can download all the documents...

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If you found it through GOV.UK, it’s OK

Posted by: Ade Adewunmi - former Head of Data Infrastructure, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 21 March 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK
If you found it through GOV.UK, it’s OK

GOV.UK is the best place to find government services and information online. The best way to get there is to type www.gov.uk into your browser.

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Budget 2014 - how GOV.UK performed

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 21 March 2014 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

Following yesterday's budget announcement, we thought it would be interesting to look at how GOV.UK performed on the day compared with budget day last year.

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One link on GOV.UK - 350,000 more organ donors

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 18 March 2014 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK
One link on GOV.UK - 350,000 more organ donors

...to join the NHS organ donation register. Over 350,000 people have now registered for organ donation via this one link on GOV.UK [since Jan 2013] Via a comment on that...

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