UK public data to inform decisions and build services
The UK has launched a new platform for public data aimed at informing decisions and building services. This platform includes curated collections of high-quality data across various sectors such as business, environment, government, and transport. It also provides resources like a data manual to assist in working with data in the public sector.
- ▪The new data.gov.uk platform offers curated collections of accessible public data.
- ▪Data is categorized into sectors including business, environment, government, and transport.
- ▪A data manual is available to help users work with public sector data.
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| Original publisher | Gov |
| Canonical URL | https://www.data.gov.uk |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 21:23:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T21:57:40.700Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T21:57:40.700Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 2vKVSgg8DjkL |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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The home of UK public data to inform decisions and build services Find out more about the new data.gov.uk Collections Curated collections of high-quality, accessible data Business and economy Company information, prices, trade, economic indicators Environment Nature, climate, floods, mapping Government Election results, local government finance, Council Tax Land and property Housing, ownership, planning, addresses People Population, health, immigration, social mobility Transport Roads, driving, public transport, shipping Data manual A guide to working with data in government and the public sector Data manual Directory You can still search the original open data directory, which we're working on Directory Blog posts What’s changing on data.gov.uk and why 25 March 2026 Using data standards…
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