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GOV.UK Notify has sent 12 billion messages since May 2016. That’s a major milestone for our team – but it’s not the whole story. It took us 4 years to reach our first 1 billion messages. Then things began to speed up.
Just 6 months later, we hit 2 billion. In 2025 we passed 10 billion – and, less than a year on, we’ve added another 2 billion to our total. This kind of rapid growth is only possible if we build and run Notify so it’s sustainable, scalable and reliable...

A year ago, GDS launched the ambitious Blueprint for modern digital government. It established a bold plan for the whole of digital government – and just last week GDS published an update on its progress: A roadmap for modern digital government.
The Blueprint named the wallet as one of its 5 “kickstarter initiatives” – projects that demonstrate a new era of digital government. GDS has designed the wallet to store government-issued credentials digitally within the GOV.UK One Login app. As well...

Our roadmap sets out how every corner of the state is using technology to make government work for the citizens it serves. It’s an action plan for the whole of the public sector, bringing together some of the most important products, platforms and transformation...

People with long-term health conditions or disabilities often need support from multiple services – across health, work, and welfare. But the current system can be confusing, repetitive, and hard to navigate.
At the Government Digital Service (GDS), the Service Transformation team wanted to test how services could work better together to support people to stay in – or return to – work....