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Government transaction costs - the story behind the data

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 17 January 2013 - Categories: Data, Digital strategy

Last July, GDS published a full list of all the transactional services that the Government offers to citizens and business, along with their annual volume of activity. It was the first time the Government had ever done this.

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How much? Publishing the cost of government transactions

Posted by: Francis Maude, Posted on: 17 January 2013 - Categories: Data, Digital strategy

...the biggest services the Government offers its citizens. Taken together, there are over a billion transactions through these 44 services every single year. That's over 88% of the transactions handled...

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