News and communications

Public sector organisations are now able to license Coal Authority data for free.

• Updated: 25 April 2024

New Public Sector Geospatial Agreement location datasets released by Ordnance Survey will help deliver improved public services.

• Updated: 28 March 2024

Geospatial Commission joins initiative to increase coverage, quality and accessibility of seabed mapping data

• Updated: 20 March 2024

The GPA's Head of Technology Allan Gardner discusses using occupancy data insights to make human-led decisions when managing government buildings.

• Updated: 16 February 2024

Four winning projects to support AI firms working in higher education, healthcare, finance, and recruitment under the Government's AI Fairness Challenge.

• Updated: 6 February 2024

The government has introduced legislation to update the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

• Updated: 8 November 2023

UK companies can apply for up to £400,000 in government investment to fund innovative new solutions which tackle bias and discrimination in AI systems.

• Updated: 16 October 2023

A speech from Minister for the Cabinet Office Jeremy Quin on Civil Service modernisation and reform.

• Updated: 19 July 2023

The UK has become the first country in the world to be granted Associate status in the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum.

• Updated: 6 July 2023

Data - its uses and benefits are central to our work as actuaries. In the Special Feature we look at upcoming data projects and our long-term strategy.

• Updated: 22 June 2023

Mortality Insights explores the effects of extreme outside temperatures on mortality in the UK. We look at which sectors of society are adversely affected.

• Updated: 11 April 2023

UK and U.S. have announced the winners of the privacy-enhancing technologies prize challenges.

• Updated: 31 March 2023

Find what it is like to present at DataConnect and what you can expect at DataConnect23

• Updated: 13 March 2023

The world-class teams at Dstl work with the top minds from across military, academia, industry… and now science fiction.

• Updated: 28 February 2023

UK and U.S. have announced the winners of the first phase of the privacy-enhancing technologies prize challenges.

• Updated: 10 November 2022

We deal with a huge volume of complex data every day. The backgrounds, skills and interests within the Government Actuary's Department are an advantage in doing this.

• Updated: 24 October 2022

GAD's wide ranging work including the use of data science and modelling, was discussed at a recent event attended by analysts from local authorities.

• Updated: 29 July 2022

An internationally-recognised data expert from Dstl has been appointed by The Queen as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE).

• Updated: 1 June 2022

How researchers can access a rich data set shared by Ofqual, UCAS and the Department for Education to conduct research in the public interest.

• Updated: 29 April 2022

Understand the quality of your data using a structured approach

• Updated: 28 April 2022