General British Sites

• Gov.UK  formerly DirectGov: website of the UK government: get straight through to public services including services from local councils: now

• mySociety.org: a family of sites enabling citizens to connect to decision makers

• UK Resilience : public information during events of national importance

• Unlocking Innovation: UK data online

• Breakfast with Frost Transcripts: political interviews

• Demos: the think tank for everyday
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• Dod Online: Vacher Dod Publishing [unavailable at latest check]

• Downing Street Says: unofficial site about Downing Street press briefings

• Full Fact: UK independent fact checking organisation

• Keele University Directory of British Government and Politics Resources on the Internet: includes local government, election information, think tanks and pressure groups.

• Law

• Mori :current and archived survey results.

• Parliament Homepage: includes directories of MPs, departments and ministers

• Parliament Live

• Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources: includes political parties and interest groups worldwide

• TheyWorkForYou.com: digestible Hansard

• UK online Citizen Portal: now Gov.UK

• WriteToThem.com: Email or fax your Councillor, MP, MEP, MSP or Welsh, NI, London Assembly Member for free

UK Government Departments and Other National Organisations

Note that Government Departments have an annoying habit of changing their names and web addresses. Departments may be split or they may gobble up other departments,

• Adam Smith Institute

• Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)

• Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB): a department of the Department for Transport

• Audit Commission

• Archbishop of Canterbury

• Bank of England

• BIS: Department for Business Innovation and Skills

• British Council

• British Humanist Association

• The British Monarchy

• British Standards Institute (BSI)

• British Waterways: now Canals and River Trust and Scottish Canals

• Cabinet Office

• Campaign for Freedom of Information

• Care Quality Commission: formerly the Healthcare Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission

• Central Office of Information closed on 31st March 2012. its existing framework agreements have been transferred to Government Procurement Service

• Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion

• Charity Commission

• (Office of the) Chief Rabbi

• Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

• Child Support Agency

• Church of England

• CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

• College of Arms (Heralds)

• Companies House

• Commission for Racial Equality: now Equality and Human Rights Commission

• Committee on Standards in Public Life : Nolan Committee

• Communities and Local Government

• Competition Commission

• Copyright Licensing Agency

• Countryside Agency : now Natural England

• Criminal Cases Review Commission

• Criminal Records Bureau: now migrated to Gov.UK: Business Link and The Home Office: all departments will have an online tracking service

• Crown Prosecution Service

• H.M. Customs & Excise

• Data Protection Registry: now the Information Commissioner's Office

• :Department for Business Innovation and Skills

• Department for Children Schools and Families: formerly Department for Education and Employment now Department for Education

• Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA): archive only: moved to the Ministry of Justice

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport

• Department for Education

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

• Department of Health Home Page

• Department for Innovation Universities and Skills : formerly: Department for Education and Skills: now part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

• Department for International Development

• Department of National Heritage: now Department for Culture, Media and Sport

• Department of Social Security : now Department for Work and Pensions

• Department of Trade and Industry supported Consumer Direct: which is now AdviceGuide from Citizens Advice a telephone and online advice and information service for consumers in Great Britain: Department is now : Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

• Department for Transport

• Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• Deputy Prime Minister, Office of: : now part of Communities and Local Government

• DVLA: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

• E-Government Unit: responsible for ensuring that all government services are available electronically by 2005: now archived

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

• Education UK

• English Heritage

• Environment Agency

• Equality and Human Rights Commission

• Fabian Society 

• Fairtrade Foundation

• Family Records Centre: discontinued but available as an Archive

• Financial Services Authority

• Food Standards Agency

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office

• Forestry Commission

• General Register Office for Scotland

• Government Procurement Service : Closed: now part of Crown Commercial Service

• Health, Department of

• Health Organizations

• Health & Safety Executive. (HSE): includes Myth of the Month: an attempt to clarify misleading stories in the media

• Higher Education Funding Council for England:

• Higher Education Statistics Agency

• Historical Manuscripts Commission

• HM Land Registry cost £3 each

• Home Office

• House of Commons Home Page

• House of Lords Home Page

• Identity and Passport Service

• Immigration and Nationality Department

• Independent Asylum Commission

• Independent Police Complaints Commission

• Information Commissioner's Office: you can report unwanted marketing texts and calls

• Inland Revenue: now HM Revenue and Customs

• Institute for Fiscal Studies

• Institute for Public Policy Research

• International Development, Department for

• Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)

• Joint  Nature Conservation Committee

• Land Registry

• Legal Services Commission: formerly Legal Aid Board

• Liberty: protecting civil liberties: promoting human rights

• Local Government Commission

• Local Government Ombudsman

• Lord Chancellor's Department :now Department for Constitutional Affairs [archive only]

• The Lottery Commission

• Maritime and Coastguard Agency

• Metropolitan Police

• Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food : functions have been taken over by Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

• Ministry of Defence

• Ministry of Justice: formerly part of the Home Office

• National Archives

• National Audit Office

• National Health Service

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) : formerly the Health Development Agency and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence

• National Secular Society

• National Statistics

• National Youth Agency

• Natural England

• Neighbourhood Statistics Office: includes 2001 Census

• Northern Ireland Assembly

• Northern Ireland Office

• Office for Communications (Ofcom): replaces: the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC), the Independent Television Commission (ITC), Oftel, the Radio Authority and the Radiocommunications Agency.

• Office for Disability Issues

• Office of Fair Trading

• Office of the Rail Regulator

• Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED)

• Ofwat: Office of Water Services

• Ombudsmen: British and Irish Ombudsman Association

• Ordnance Survey

• Our Healthier Nation

• The Patent Office

• Passport Agency

• Prince of Wales' Website

• Prison Service: site available as archive only. Public information available at Gov.UK: practitioner  and corporate information is available at Justice

• Public Guardianship Office: discontinued but information available at Gov.uk and Justice

• Public Record Office : now National Archives

• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

• Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

• Quangos

• Refugee Council

• Registers of Scotland Executive Agency: Scotland's National Land and Property Registers

• HM Revenue and Customs

• The Royal Family

• Royal Mail

• Royal Parks Agency

• Royal Society

• Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)

• The Scottish Office

• Scottish Parliament

• Social Security, Department of: : now Department for Work and Pensions

• Secret Intelligence Service (SIS): also known as MI6

• HM Stationary Office: now The Office of Public Sector Information

• Teacher Training Agency: now part of the National College for Teaching and Leadership

• No 10 Downing Street (Prime Minister)

• Trade and Industry Department now BIS : Department for Business Innovation and Skills

• Trades Union Congress (TUC)

• Trading Standards Institute (TSI)

• Transport, Department for

• Her Majesty's Treasury

• UCAS: Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

• UK Parliament

• UK Planning: planning information, searchable by postcode

• UK Resilience : public information during events of national importance

• Wales Office

• Welsh Assembly

• Who Owns Scotland?: site aimed to document the ownership of 75% of Scotland by the end of 2004

• Woodland Trust

• Work and Pensions, Department for (DWP)

UK Government Publications

• BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) : references to key British Official Publications 1688-1995

• Early Day Motions--House of Commons

• Highway Code:

• House of Commons Library Research Papers

• United Kingdom Parliament World Wide Web Service includes UCAS : Universities and Colleges Admissions Service [unavailable at latest check]

• House of Commons Publications on the Internet [unavailable at latest check]

• National Statistics: the Official United Kingdom Statistics Site

• The Office of Public Sector Information: formerly HM Stationary Office

• Official Documents Archive

• Official Documents: organised by category, date and department

• Ofsted

• School and College Performance Tables

• StatBase: UK National Statistics Online

• UK Legislation: contains the full text of all Public and Local Acts of the UK Parliament, the Explanatory Notes to Public Acts, Statutory Instruments and Draft Statutory Instruments; and Measures of the General Synod of the Church of England.

Individual British Government Reports

Often Government reports are removed or have their addresses changed. The original web addresses may be taken over by commercial companies

A good place to search for a vanished report is on the Official Documents Archive website.

By Chairman's Name

• Acheson Report: Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health 1998

• Bain Review: Independent review of the fire service 2002 : now unavailable but some information on Wikipedia

• Bichard  Inquiry Report 2004: an independent inquiry set up after the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, into the manner in which the police had handled intelligence about Ian Huntley's past and about the vetting processes which ultimately led to his employment in a local school.

• Black Report : Reducing Health Inequalities: an Action Report 1980

• Butler Review: Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction:  published 14/07/04

• Cantle Report: community cohesion 2001

• Chilcot Inquiry  The Iraq Inquiry 2009-

• Chilcot Report 2016

• Cullen Report : Dunblane Massacre 1996

• Cullen Report: and other information Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry 2001

• Dearing Committee Report: National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education 1997

• http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090104005813/http:/www.dft.gov.uk/about/strategy/transportstrategy/eddingtonstudy/ Dec. 2006

• Follett Report: The Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock 2002

• Higgs Report: :Review of the Role and Effectiveness of Non-executive Directors 2003

• Hutton Inquiry: Investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Kelly: Report published 28th Jan 2004

• Hutton Inquiry: Independent Public Service Pensions Commission:  now includes final report March 2011

• Independent Asylum Commission: Fit for Purpose Yet? interim findings 2008

• :Jenkins Report The Report of the Independent Commission on the Voting System 1998

• Keith Report: the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry 2006. Vol. 1. Vol.2

• : King Reports: the report of the RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, communities and Public Policy. 8th March 2007

• Laming Report: the Victoria Climbie Inquiry 2003

• Leveson Inquiry: culture, practice and ethics of the press. 2012-

• Macpherson Report: The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry 1999

• Neill Committee Report : The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom 1999:

• Nolan Committee: Review on Child Protection in the Catholic Church in England and Wales 2001: as often happens, the review is no longer online. There is relevant information on the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (COPCA)

• Nolan Committee: Standards in Public Life: 1st report 1994

• Nolan Committee: Standards in Public Life. Second Report

• Norgrove Report: Family Justice Review Final Report. 2011

• Peat Report: report to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 13th March 2003

• Hayden Phillips Enquiry 2007:  the review of the funding of political parties: now archived

• Phillips Report: BSE inquiry 2000

• Power Inquiry 2006

• Runciman Report: Drugs and the law: report of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

• Saville Report: Bloody Sunday Inquiry

• Smith Report: Audit Committees Combined Code Guidance 2003

• Smith Report  Independent Inquiry into the issues arising from the case of Dr. Harold Shipman 2005

• Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change 2006: archived

• Stevens' Report: Operation Paget Inquiry Report into the allegation of conspiracy to murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (Dec.14th 2006)

• Turner Report. a new pension settlement for the Twenty-First century: the second report of the Pensions Committee 2005

• Widgery Report: Report of the Tribunal appointed to inquire into the events on Sunday, 30th January 1972 which led to loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day

• Wreck Commissioners Report of the re-opened formal investigation into the loss of the FV Gaul 2004

By Title

• Audit Committees Combined Code Guidance (Smith Report)

• BSE Inquiry Report: the inquiry into BSE and variant CJD in the United Kingdom (Phillips Report)

• Bloody Sunday Inquiry (chairman Lord Saville of Newdigate)

• Campaign against International Terrorism following the fall of the Taliban‎‎‎

• Community Cohesion: A Report of the Independent Review Team Chaired by Ted Cantle (Cantle Report)

• Culture, practice and ethics of the press. 2012- (Leveson Inquiry)

• Dunblane Massacre (Cullen Report)

• Drugs and the law: report of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Runciman Report)

• Drugs: facing facts: the report of the RSA Commission on illegal drugs, communities and public policy

• Eddington Transport Study 2006

• Family Justice Review Final Report. Nov. 2011. Chairman David Norgrove  (Norgrove Report)

• Fishing Vessel Gaul: formal investigation and Report  (Wreck Commissioners Report 2004) the Honourable Mr. Justice David Steel

• Fit for Purpose Yet? interim findings from the Independent Asylum Commission 2008

• The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom

• The Future of the Fire Service: reducing risk, saving lives - The Independent Review of the Fire Service December 2002 (The Bain Report): now unavailable but some information on Wikipedia

• Good Friday Agreement

• Independent Commission on the Voting System Report (Jenkins Report)

• Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Acheson Report)

• An independent inquiry arising from the Soham murders (Bichard Report)

• Independent Public Service Pensions Commission (Hutton Inquiry) Now includes final report

•  Infectious Diseases in Livestock (Royal Society Report)

• Investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Kelly (Hutton Inquiry)

• The Iraq Inquiry (Chilcot Inquiry) 2009- Report 2016

• National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education: Dearing Committee Report

• Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry  including (Cullen Report)

• A new pension settlement for the Twenty-First century: the second report of the Pensions Commission (Turner Report) (2005)

• Operation Paget Inquiry Report into the allegation of conspiracy to murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (Stevens' Report) (Dec.14th 2006)

• Power: an Independent Inquiry into Britain's Democracy

• The protection of children in England: a progress report (Laming Report) (2009): appears to be unavailable but recommendations etc. are available at the Community Care Website

• Reducing Health Inequalities: an Action Report (Black Report)

• Reducing Health Inequalities an action report. 1999: Our Healthier Nation 1999

• Report of the Tribunal appointed to inquire into the events on Sunday, 30th January 1972 (Widgery Report)

• Report to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by Sir Michael Peat and Edmund Lawson QC (Peat Report)

• Review on the Economics of Climate Change (Chairman Sir. Nicholas Stern)

• Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction :  published 14/7/04 (Butler Review)

• Review of the Funding of Political Parties (Hayden Phillips Review): now archived

• Review of the Role and Effectiveness of Non-executive Directors (Higgs Report)

• Review on Child Protection in the Catholic Church in England and Wales (Nolan Review): as often happens, the review is no longer online. There is relevant information on the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (COPCA)

• Saving Lives: our healthier nation

• The Shipman Inquiry: Chairman Dame Janet Smith

• :Standards in Public Life 1st report (Nolan Committee)

• Standards in Public Life: 2nd report (Nolan Committee)

• The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: report of an inquiry by Sir William Macpherson of Cluny (Macpherson Report)

• Review on the Economics of Climate Change (Chairman Sir. Nicholas Stern)

• UK Membership of the Single Currency: an assessment of the five economic tests - executive summary

• Victoria Climbie Inquiry : chairman Lord Laming (Laming Report)

• Zahid Mubarek Inquiry: includes the report published 29th June 2006: Vol. 1. Vol.2

Medical Reports

UK Politics

• Holyrood.com: Scottish politics on the Web

UK Political Parties

• Party Election Manifestos from 1945

• UK Political Parties: via Wikipedia

• Conservative Party

• Labour Party

• Liberal Democrats

International Government and Institutions

• African Union

• Americas: BBC Country Profiles

• Amnesty International

• BBC Country Profiles

• The Commonwealth Secretariat

• Forced Migration Online

• Human Rights Watch

• International Association of Universities

• International Law

• International Organization Web Sites-UIA

• International Bureau of Education (IBE)World Data on Education

• Migration Information Source [unavailable at latest search]

• Nationmaster: comparative international statistics

• Official Documents of the United Nations

• OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web

• UNESCO

• UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency

• United Nations

• United Nations Development Programme

• US State Department with Human Rights Reports: note that there is no report for the USA

• The White House

• World Public Opinion

• World Rulers: list of current heads of state and government: from Wikipedia

Europe

• BBC Country Profiles

• Court of Justice of the European Communities

• The EU: what's in it for me?: : a non nonsense guide for UK citizens on what the European Union Delivers [unavailable at latest check]

• EUROPA: Key facts and figures about Europe and the Europeans

• EuroparlTV: introduction to the European Parliament mainly for young people

• European Central Bank

• EuroNews

• European Centre for Minority Issues

• European Commission: Public Opinion

• European Information : The European Commission's Representation in the UK

• European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia

• European Parliament

• European Union in the US

• Inside Europe: Your Guide To Life Inside the European Union

• Lisbon Treaty

• The Maastricht Treaty

• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Statistical Database

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