News and communications

We often talk about giving civil servants the ability to ‘work from any building’ but do people understand what it means and know what the benefit is for them?

• Updated: 14 December 2023

A new universal login is making public services easier to access online for more than 1.5 million people. The system, allows users to have just one account, one username, one password and one identity check to use Government…

• Updated: 6 July 2023

Frequently Asked Questions regarding the government response to the consultation on draft legislation to support identity verification

• Updated: 23 May 2023

Online government services will become easier than ever before for people to use thanks to upgrades and investment in the Civil Service workforce over the next 3 years.

• Updated: 9 June 2022

Plans to make it easier for the public to access online government services via an app have been set out today by Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Steve Barclay.

• Updated: 13 October 2021

How the frontend development team at Government Digital Service (GDS) improved the performance of GOV.UK by implementing HTTP/2

• Updated: 2 July 2020

Error messages displayed when attempting to access the Unclaimed Estates List

• Updated: 22 January 2020

Paying for government services online is to be made easier by allowing people to make payments through Apple Pay and Google Pay.

• Updated: 4 May 2019

Voice-activated smart speakers and virtual assistants can now be used to find out more than 12,000 pieces of information from the government.

• Updated: 20 April 2019

The team that runs GOV.UK Notify, GDS’s notifications platform used across the public sector, has won the Operational Excellence Award in this year’s Civil Service Awards.

• Updated: 9 November 2018