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Making GOV.UK – the single government website – a reality

Posted by: Daniel de Cruz, Posted on: 29 January 2015 - Categories: Defra digital

You may be familiar with GOV.UK, the single government website. It’s now had over 1.2 billion visits. But it actually hasn’t been around very long, and it has only just now completed its initial development. At the end of December …

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The strategy is delivery …

Posted by: Daniel de Cruz, Posted on: 23 January 2015 - Categories: Defra digital

You may have heard this mantra coming out of the Cabinet Office, but what does it mean in practice?

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Keeping guidance simple

Posted by: Padma Gillen, Posted on: 21 January 2015 - Categories: Defra content design, Defra digital

Defra’s Smarter Guidance programme aims to make it much easier for people to follow the regulations that affect them. After all, that’s what guidance is for.

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Changing the way we work

Posted by: Jetinder Sangha, Posted on: 20 January 2015 - Categories: Defra digital

Welcome to the new Defra digital blog. This is the first post on what I hope will become the first port of call for anybody interested in what Defra is doing in digital.

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