Guidance for publishing on GOV.UK during the pre-election period
Find out what can and cannot be published.
It’s up to departments to decide whether content should be published, based on the pre-election guidance for civil servants.
Check with your managing editor if something can be published. If they’re not sure, they should check with a senior member of your communications team.
Do not unpublish or withdraw content that was on GOV.UK before the pre-election period started.
However, you can sometimes:
- unpublish content published by mistake
- unpublish and redirect pages when you’re merging content
- withdraw content that is no longer current and has been replaced by something new
In these cases, check with a director in your department.
You can request small, factual changes, for example to:
- change an address or phone number
- fix something that’s stopping users completing a task
For bigger changes, check with a director in your department and confirm that you’ve done this when you raise a ticket.