About us
Source: gov.uk (2025-01-21)

We are the digital centre of government. We serve the public, central government departments and the wider public sector.

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Responsibilities

We:
- set the digital strategy for government
- measure and manage digital performance across government
- maintain guidance and tools to support best practice, including the Service Manual (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual)
- drive greater efficiency in digital public services
- own product strategy and delivery for government including GOV.UK and its common components, GOV.UK One Login, artificial intelligence (AI) products for use across government, geospatial data, the National Data Library and the National Underground Asset Register (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-underground-asset-register-nuar)
- lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government
Read ‘A blueprint for modern digital government (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-blueprint-for-modern-digital-government)’ to learn more about the remit of the digital centre of government.

Priorities

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:
- joining up public sector services
- harnessing the power of AI for the public good
- strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
- elevating leadership and investing in talent
- funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
- committing to transparency and driving accountability
Our work to achieve these priorities includes:
- a beta GOV.UK App and GOV.UK Wallet, to enable more personalised user experiences and verifiable digital credentials
- continuing the rollout of GOV.UK One Login
- a pilot of GOV.UK Chat, an LLM-powered chat user interface for GOV.UK
- continuing the rollout of the National Underground Asset Register, to ensure industry has access to the infrastructure data it needs and disruptions for the public from roadworks are reduced
- collaborating with organisations across the public sector to pilot improvements in how to better manage a long term health condition or disability
- a new cross-government vulnerability scanning service to find and address weaknesses in our systems and services
- a new AI accelerator upskilling programme, helping digital professionals to become machine learning engineers
- continuing to lead and champion the digital and data profession across government
- reforming the approach to public sector digital procurement
We’ll be publishing more details in the Government Digital and AI roadmap later in 2025.

Who we are

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology).

We employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

We were brought together into one organisation in January 2025, formed from existing teams in:
- Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO)
- Geospatial Commission
- GDS
- Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI)
- Responsible Tech Adoption Unit
i.AI will continue to publish updates about their work on the i.AI website (https://ai.gov.uk/).