Government organisation register data

Data for an alpha register of UK central government organisations — departments, agencies and other organisations with a presence on GOV.UK:

• data/government-organisation/government-organisation.tsv

The term "public sector" or "public body" has a much wider scope than central government organisations covered by this register. The meaning of "public sector" depends upon context, for example, the Digital Marketplace buyers list includes schools, academies, public corporations and other legal entities such as charities funded by government and recorded in separate registers.

A register needing to reference public sector organisations may use a "public-body", "organisation", "operator" or other field which is a CURIE to one of a number of different registers, including the government-organisation register.

Unique identifier

The unique identifier (government-organisation field) is from the analytics_identifier field in the gov.uk API.

Lists, fixes and maps

You can see the report generated from the lists, fixes and maps in this repository: https://openregister.github.io/government-organisation-data/report/

Other lists

There are older PDF reports on public bodies 1999-2009 and in the GOV.UK public bodies collection.

This list of lists is by no means comprehensive, and contributions of other lists are appreciated.

Building

Use make to build register shaped data and the report – we recommend using a Python virtual environment:

$ mkvirtualenv -p python3 government-organisation-data
$ workon government-organisation-data
$ make init

$ make

The register is built from GOV.UK source data. To refresh the list:

$ cd lists/govuk
$ make clean
$ make

Then rebuild the register and the report:

$ cd -
$ make clobber
$ make

Licence

The software in this project is covered by LICENSE file.

The data is © Crown copyright and available under the terms of the Open Government 3.0 licence.