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  • Letter to Cabinet Ministers on transparency and open data

    In a letter to Cabinet Ministers, the Prime Minister committed to publishing key data on the National Health Service, schools, criminal courts and transport.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DCMS exceeds carbon emissions reduction target

    Figures show central Government has achieved a 10 per cent reduction goal

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New Civil Service organisation charts released

    The government is publishing the most comprehensive organisation charts of the UK civil service ever released online.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New Civil Service organisation charts released

    The Government has published the most comprehensive organisational charts of the UK Civil Service ever released online.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 100 councils open their spending to public scrutiny

    This week South Ribble Borough Council has become the one hundredth local authority to put its spending data over £500 online.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government spending data published

    The government has today published detailed spending data allowing the public to see for the first time how money is spent.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Defra spending over £25,000 published

    The UK Government portal for transparency, data.gov.uk, gives the public and developers easy access to data from all levels of government.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government spending data published

    The government has today published detailed spending data allowing the public to see for the first time how money is spent and hold politicians to account

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The final countdown: It's all to play for in the Whitehall Energy Showdown

    With the Department of Work and Pensions leading the pack and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills hot on their heels, climate …

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • More than 60 councils open books to armchair auditors

    Local authorities that don’t put their spending detail online are denying the public the right to hold their council to account, Secretary of…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • PM challenges departments to slash energy use

    The Prime Minister challenged Whitehall ministries to compete to slash the energy used in their departmental HQs over the month of October.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Account books opened as Pickles continues to show public the money

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles continues to trailblaze transparency today by publishing more departmental spending and setting out new austerity…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Transparency trailblazer Pickles publishes more department spending data

    Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is today continuing to open up the Government accounts to the public and set out new austerity procedures…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Spotlight on Whitehall energy waste

    Energy meters in all 18 Whitehall headquarters can now be tracked by the public online in real time, Greg Barker and Francis Maude announced…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Our response to public comments on government transparency

    Thank you to everyone who commented on government transparency in Our Programme for Government (PFG) Government…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Tell us which datasets you want released

    Francis Maude has today called for the British people to nominate which new government datasets they want to be released on data.gov.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • "Send us your comments" says new Transparency Board

    Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has invited comments on new government principles for transparency and open data.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Publishing data from the COINS database

    Publishing data from the COINS database.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government