Funding Service: How digital innovation will help us to deliver grants faster, better and cheaper
The Funding Service is a multidisciplinary team in MHCLG transforming the way the department deliver...
Digital Planning: Developing planning applications specifications in the open
Following our previous blog about data specifications for planning application submissions, we're pl...
Digital Planning: applying digital principles and innovation to transform England’s planning system
The Digital Planning programme within MHCLG has a mission to modernise the planning system and make ...
Faster, better, cheaper: delivering improved outcomes for citizens
Everyone in government is focused on outcomes. Whether these are wrapped up in policies or programme...
Data Hackathon: Exploring how open data can help transform the planning system
‘Housing Heroes’ was the team name an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool generated for us at a recent...
Keeping a close eye on your property helps us prevent potential fraud
International Fraud Awareness Week 2024 takes place this week, seeing hundreds of organisations arou...
From manual to automated: enhancing reporting for the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping team
The Digital Process Improvement team in MHCLG is a diverse, multidisciplinary team dedicated to maki...
Designing a user-centred cyber assessment service for local government
In October 2024, the MHCLG Local Digital team launched the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for loca...
We are simplifying the registration of personal covenants
We are making the process by which we enter personal covenants in the register more consistent. Cust...
Assessing the viability of housing development sites
Viability co-founders Henry Mayell and Adria Tarrida Property technology (PropTech) start-up Viabili...
Are you paying too much for HM Land Registry services?
If you are looking for information about land or property in England or Wales, you will probably wan...
What might a Policy Standard in government look like?
Government is becoming more familiar with doing user-centred policy design, whether in creating prog...
Funding Service: Defining data standards for grant teams
Creating reusable standards to improve grant delivery Data collection in funding is complex, with no...
The scale and cost of requisitions
In part one of this blog, we explored how HM Land Registry is reducing the number of requisitions we...
Using data design to transform the planning application process: get involved
The planning application process, known as development management, is integral to new developments c...
Empowering voters: behind the scenes of the Choose My PCC service
We are a multidisciplinary team embedded within the MHCLG’s Elections Directorate, which builds and ...
How are we reducing the number of requisitions we send?
Chonlatee42/Shutterstock.com While our overriding focus is on reducing the age of our oldest applica...
Prioritising mental health in the workplace
My interest in mental health stems from a personal experience, having supported my wife through very...
User needs and user biases: telling them apart
As I sat through my 10th or so user research interview on the Common Tools as a Service project at t...
Setting the foundations for effective data use in local government
In this blog post, we share the insights behind our approach to scaling data standards and an update...
Adaptive funding: 8 ways to make funding effective in solving complex problems
Complex problems Most of the problems that today’s governments are trying to address are complex. I...
Taking a bold, innovative approach to tackle the digital and data recruitment challenge
Digital and data roles are known to be difficult to fill, not only in government but in the wider se...
Funding Service: why combining self-service with a human touch works best for grant teams
What we mean by guided self-service In the world of designing and launching new funds, guided self-...
Design, delivery, and determinism: reflections on the SDinGov conference 2024
Not quite the entire MHCLG contingent at the Service Design in Government conference, hosted in Edin...
My experience on the Summer Internship Programme in MHCLG
A career in MHCLG Digital is open to everyone regardless of their background. The Civil Service Summ...
It’s now much easier to add additional parties to Digital Registration Service applications
BushAlex/Shutterstock.com HM Land Registry now processes more than 1.5 million applications annually...
From Homes for Ukraine to community building: my journey as a business analyst Fast Streamer
I’m Luke and I’m a business analyst in my first year of the ‘Digital, Data Technology and Cyber’ Fas...
Delivering at pace: introducing Common Tools as a Service
For the past 18 months, my team and I have been leading a new initiative at MHCLG called Common Tool...
Exploring the use of artificial intelligence to streamline the planning process
Planning documents often contain vast amounts of valuable information, but accessing and using this ...
Improving our digital services
David Gyung/Shutterstock.com We have made a number of key improvements to our digital services over ...