10 years ago, GDS launched GOV.UK Pay, one of its flagship platforms used by public sector service teams. To mark this milestone, we look back at an incredible first decade and some exciting developments in store as we begin the next decade.
...our leading transactions, I believe that these strategies have real weight because of the reputation for delivery which precedes them. Image by Paul Clarke Delivery Highlights 2011 May: GOV.UK Alpha...
...the scale of our collective ambition. The journey to this point started with Martha’s report, and the simple but powerful observation that most interactions with Government are transactional, and it’s...
...and businesses to update their tax affairs. For example, a new digital service will allow 30 million+ PAYE taxpayers to report changes that affect their tax codes, rather than making...
Today we published the Government Approach to Assisted Digital as part of the Government Digital Strategy. Assisted Digital provision is the help and support we will provide so people who can’t use digital services independently can access digital by default …
Hi I’m Angela, I work in the User Research Team and would like to talk about the range of research we conducted in the run up to the launch of Inside Government. Just to recap, on 15 November the GDS …
...feature in most agile methodologies. The cards showing the current team tasks, are displayed on the walls. At GDS, for the most part we practise scrum and where necessary we...
...can find information and guidance from almost all government bodies in one place. There will be a consistent design and layout for information published by about 300 different government organisations....
...department is about to publish its own digital strategy, forming the roadmap for service transformation over the next year. This will create a new generation of digital public services where...
...to the child maintenance calculator and been talking to the content and analytics teams about making some improvements to page slugs. All of that took place after a bit a...
...the Transformation team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkcZMGARsuc Meet the Transformation team - video transcript Mike Beaven (Transformation Programme Director, Government Digital Service): The Transformation team really operates as an internal consultancy that goes...
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The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.