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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.”