Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 65075

Local Government: ICT

Tabled: 4 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025

Question

Sarah Hall

Labour (Co-op)Warrington South

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help ensure that local government bodies adopt (a) common data standards and (b) open Application Programming Interfaces.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
MHCLG are supporting data standards initiatives to ensure that local government bodies can effectively adopt common data standards and open APIs, to enhance service delivery and interoperability. This includes the Open Referral UK and SAVVI data standards...

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