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London Gazette

# State
# Parliament
# Ecclesiastical
#Public Finance
# Transport
# Planning
# Health
# Environment
# Water
# Agriculture & Fisheries
# Energy
# Post & Telecom
# Competition
# Corporate Insolvency
# Companies & Financial Regulations
# Partnerships
# Societies Regulation

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XML

Public Spending Information

HM Treasury

# Public expenditure overview
# Analyses of budgets
# Differences from previous plans
# Trends in public sector expenditure
# Functional and economic category analyses of public sector expenditure
# Central government own expenditure
# Local authority expenditure
# Public corporations
# Analysis of public expenditure by country and region
# Country expenditure by sub-function

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Excel
CSV

List of schools

Department of Children, Schools and Families

List of all the schools in England and Wales (from Edubase)

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Excel
SQL

Neighbourhood Statistics (NeSS)

Office of National
Statistics

# 2001Census
# Access to Services
# Community wellbeing/Social Environment
# Crime and Safety
# Economic Deprivation
# Education
# Skills and Training
# Health and care
# Housing, Indicators
# Indices of Deprivation
# People and Society
# Physical Environment
# Work Deprivation

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SOAP

Registration
required

Transport Information

Transport Direct

# Location of bus stops, stations etc and descriptions of the locations
# The National Car Park Register
# Journey planning information
# A carbon calculator
# The National Public Transport Data Repository feed

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API
FTP

Requires a registration by email to get the access to the data

Health care services and information

NHS

Information about health care service providers, and “live well” health information from the NHS.

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REST (XML)

Registration required

Address Data

Royal Mail

Sample raw data from the Postcode Address File. This will give you a comprehensive overview of the type, structure and format of the address data held by the Royal Mail, as well as the different data sets Royal Mail maintain.

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The data is available on CD
and it should be required by
e-mail

Carbon Footprint Information

Defra (via AMEE - a 3rd party aggregator)

An application to calculate energy consumption and CO2 emission for classes of objects (for example the set of average sized European cars driven for 5000 km)

REST (XML, JSON, HTML)

Registration required

UK Road Travel Data

BBC

Traffic information, accidents, obrstuctions etc.

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XML (TPEG-RTM)

The XML file has validation problems

UK Public Transport Data

BBC

Public transport information, delays, warns (closed stations, replacement bus services, etc.)

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XML (TPEG-PTI)

The XML file has validation problems

3 Day Weather Forecast

BBC

Weather information of the most important cities

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XML (OPML)

National Public Transport Access Node db (NaPTAN)

Information about stations, coach terminus, airports, ferry terminals, bus stops, etc.

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XML
CVS

Registration required

National Public Transport Gazetteer (NPTG)

An archive with links among aliases of towns and places

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XML
CVS

Registration required

They Work For You

Information about Members of Parliament (MPs), their votes and their speeches

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REST (XML, JS, PHP, RABX)

Registration required

Parliament Parser

Structured versions of publicly available data from the UK parliament, and the source code that was used to generate the data

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XML

Downing Street Says

Answers of the Prime Minister’s Spokesman in response to the questions made by the Lobby (a group of selected politic journalists)

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RSS feed

Tell Them What You Think

A list of current goverment consultations

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REST (XML, PHP)

Fix My Street

Local problems inserted by citizens

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GeoRSS feed

The Government Says

Search engine to find news published by Government

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RSS feed

Planning Alerts

Data about planning applications from local authority websites

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REST (GeoRSS)

BBC Backstage

BBC

BBC News feeds, BBC Search API, TV & Radio schedules

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REST (xml, json, ics)

BBC Programmes data

BBC

Information about radio and TV programmes

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REST (xml, json, yaml)

Open Space

Ordnance Survey

Maps, name of places etc.

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API

Registration required
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