On 26 October 2015 the Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock spoke at the Institute for Government on how digital transformation can improve government services. In this excerpt he talks about the development of GOV.UK Verify and how he verified his …
Throughout our public beta we’ve posted regularly about the services we expect to start using GOV.UK Verify. Our most recent update was in May. Usually we provide a six-month view, with estimated user numbers. Following a recent exercise with a …
We're blogging again after a quiet pre-election period. We posted in February listing some of the services we were expecting to start using GOV.UK Verify before August 2015. This post provides an update on our plans. Eleven of the services we …
Olly wrote in November about the development of the onboarding guide and how we had split the process of onboarding services into stages. I’m writing today to elaborate on the 6 stage onboarding process and the governance in the programme …
We posted in January listing some of the services we were expecting to start using GOV.UK Verify before March 2015. This post provides an update on our plans. Five of the services we listed as starting to use GOV.UK Verify …
By March 2016, GOV.UK Verify will be the default way for people to prove their identity when using digital services that need to know who the user is. In HMRC’s case, this will include a range of personal tax services …
We’ve decided, with HMRC, to extend our trial of GOV.UK Verify and self-assessment further into this last week before the 31 January deadline. The trial was due to close on 27 January, but we've decided to continue to make it …
We posted in December about our plan for a trial use of GOV.UK Verify to allow people to access HMRC’s self-assessment service. We’re doing the trial on a relatively small scale over a limited period (ending at midnight on 27 …
We posted in October listing some of the services we were expecting to start using GOV.UK Verify between October 2014 and March 2015. This post provides an update on our plans. Four out of the 6 services we listed as starting …
Self-Assessment is the biggest digital transaction by volume of users - each year around 2.8 million people access the service on their own behalf, and another 5.7 million returns are filed by agents. We’re working with HMRC to carry out …
