News 2010

TSO (The Stationery Office Ltd), part of the Williams Lea Group and the leading supplier of publishing solutions to the public sector, has today announced that it has been awarded contracts to publish all UK, (England and Wales), Northern Ireland and Scottish legislation for the next five years by The National Archives and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. The contract includes the ongoing management of www.legislation.gov.uk, launched in August 2010 to open up the statute book.

Daniel Sutton from Shipton Bellinger in Hampshire couldn’t believe his luck when he found out that he’d won a competition run by TSO (The Stationery Office), the official publisher for the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), to win £1,000 of motorcycle gear.

Stacey Love from Smethwick couldn’t believe it when she received a call to tell her that she had successfully won a competition run by TSO (The Stationery Office), the official publisher for the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), to win a brand new Peugeot – the day after she had passed her driving test!

Data publishing specialist sees GovSpark as an "excellent example" of the Government Transparency initiative in action.

Legislation.gov.uk is a world first providing full access to the statute book as open data

On 18 May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new ‘right to data’ as part of the Government’s Big Society vision, so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public. At the launch of the ‘Big Society’ programme, the Prime Minister said “I think crime maps, the right to data, and opening up government data, so that people can see how a social enterprise or a voluntary body could do better what government already does, is part of the agenda.”

The hunt is on for Britain’s most innovative ideas for public data that will bring greater value to communities locally, regionally or nationally

TSO sponsored the Rewired State National Hack the Government Day 2010, on 20 March 2010 in London. The event brought developers together to create and present working projects from public sector information. The projects created included a Parliamentary Bill Analyzer, Map Interface for Hospital and Registry Office APIs and an expenditure map. View full details of the projects created.

TSO (The Stationery Office), the public sector division of Williams Lea, has today announced a partnership with Garlik, the leading semantic technology innovator, to launch what is believed to be the world's most scalable, securely hosted RDF platform for use by UK Central and Local Government departments. As the largest publisher in the UK of public sector documents (over 8,000 titles a year), TSO has taken this proactive step to provide its core public sector customers with the ability to participate with confidence in the Government's open data initiative.