Transparency is at the heart of our agenda
for government. We believe that opening up
will empower citizens, foster innovation and
reform public services. The regular publication
of government spending is holding our feet to
the fire all year round, not just at election time.
We’re creating an information marketplace for
entrepreneurs and businesses; releasing valuable
raw data from real-time transport information to
weather data. Opening up data is underpinning our
public service reforms by offering people informed
choices that simply haven’t existed before, exposing
what is inadequate and driving improvement. So far
we’ve released almost 9,000 datasets on our flagship
data portal www.data.gov.uk that cover health,
education, transport, crime and justice. People can
scrutinise local crime statistics, sentencing rates,
school results,