Department for Communities and Local Government
The Department for Transport (DFT) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), along with 3 of their public bodies, have today (15 November, 2012) become the first central government organisations to move their corporate and policy content onto the new GOV.UK website - the new single home for all government services and information.
The Inside Government section on GOV.UK makes it simpler, clearer and faster to find out:
- how government works
- what the government is doing
- how you can get involved
New web addresses
All web addresses have been redirected, so you dont need to update your bookmarks, but you might want to make a note of the new addresses:
- www.gov.uk/dclg - Department for Communities and Local Government
- www.gov.uk/dft - Department for Transport
- www.gov.uk/dsa - Driving Standards Agency
- www.gov.uk/brac - Building Regulations Advisory Committee
- www.gov.uk/pins - The Planning Inspectorate
The Inside Government section of GOV.UK has been designed to make government information more easy to find and more transparent for the user. For the first time, you can begin to find out whats happening inside government all in one place, and in a clear, consistent and transparent format.
Youll notice that the new website looks very different from the ones it has replaced. The look is one obvious difference but many of the other significant changes are less visible.
Topics
You can now see information from multiple government departments grouped by topics. For example, you can see how policies from both DFT and DCLG are contributing to economic growth or combating climate change.
Clear policies
From today, those departments and agencies who have moved to GOV.UK are publishing their policies according to the outcome the government is trying to achieve. For example:
- making roads safer
- reducing greenhouse gases and other emissions from transport
- increasing the number of available homes
For each policy, you can see a list of all the related announcements, consultations and publications in one list, called activity. The activity tab makes it easy for you to track what is happening on the policies that interest you, for example all government activity that relates to developing a high speed rail network.
More about Inside Government and GOV.UK
What you see today is just the beginning, with just 2 departments and 3 other organisations live. Work will continue as other departments and organisations, many hundreds in total, move their information to GOV.UK. This will happen in batches and will be completed by March 2014.
You can find out more here: