What data is expected?
This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.
What data is available
- Does the data exist? Yes
- Is data in digital form? Yes
- Publicly available? Yes
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? Yes (XHTML, XML, RDF/XML)
- Available in bulk? No
- Openly licensed? Yes (No URL given)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
Details
A comprehensive database of UK legislation is maintained online by The National Archives, an agency of the Ministry of Justice. The information is re-usable under the UK's Open Government Licence. -- update after asking National Archives and checking online --- A variety of machine readable formats are available through the API - see http://www.legislation.gov.uk/developer/formats (amended machine-readable to yes and updated formats). Currently the database is not downloadable in bulk. The target is to provide this by end-March 2014
Contributors
Reviewers
- Fred Saunderson
- Katelyn Rogers
- Daniela Mattern
Submitters
- Owen Boswarva
- Katelyn Rogers
- Daniela Mattern
- Iain Emsley