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Transparency and open data: progress against commitments, June 2014
Updated 28 July 2014
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| Unique reference | Topic | Action | Status (30/06/14) | Shakespeare review commitment | NAP commitment | NII commitment | Open Data Charter Action Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aid transparency | The Cabinet Office and DFID will work together to ensure that UK government departments that spend overseas development aid (ODA) publish information in line with IATI by 2015 | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 2 | Aid transparency | Implement the Busan Common Standard on Aid Transparency, including both the Creditor Reporting System of the OECD Development Assistance Committee and IATI by 2015. This means making data available according to the internationally recognised standard in a format that is open, comprehensive, comparable and re-usable | Ahead of schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 3 | Aid transparency | Improve the accessibility of development assistance information by launching the UK 'Development Tracker' by the end of 2013. This will increase the level of detail of information on DFID projects and expenditure, readable by use of a browser as well as providing data in open data files. We will also publish summary information in major local languages in a way that is accessible to citizens in the countries in which we work. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 4 | Aid transparency | Work with international donors and partner countries to better link development assistance data with partner countries' budget data, through the development of the IATI budget identifier, by June 2014. This will make it easier to understand and trace how development assistance is being spent in partner countries. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 5 | Aid transparency | Introduce approaches to improving the traceability of UK development assistance through a range of delivery chains by August 2014; this includes pilots with a number of private sector suppliers and CSOs by March 2014 and a requirement of IATI publication by the end of 2015 for all implementing partners | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 6 | Aid transparency | Continue to drive up standards in the quality of information we publish through incremental system changes, including maximising the potential of new technological developments and strengthening feedback mechanisms | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 7 | Anti-corruption | The development and content of the plan is still for departments to agree. The Home Office will work with the Cabinet Office, and other government departments, and CSOs to take forward this work. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 8 | Beneficial ownership | Implementation will now be taken forward through amendments to company law, led by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and through: transposition of the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive, which is currently being negotiated; amendments to the UK Money Laundering Regulations; and other relevant bilateral and multilateral agreements led by HM Treasury. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 9 | Best practice | Cabinet Office will work with departments and ALBs to more broadly disseminate best practice in relation to the release of open data and to highlight examples and models of moving from charged data to open data . | On track | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| 10 | Best practice | Cabinet Office will work with those departments who have already undertaken a dataset inventory to develop guidance for other departments | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 11 | Better information about health and care | Overarching clinical indicators - for ten new clinical areas (including cancer, children's services, mental health and stroke), data will be made available to tell the public how well services are performing and meeting their needs (Summer 2014 with more available over the following 12 months) | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 12 | Better information about health and care | More clinician level data - building on the successful publication of surgeon level data from national clinical audits across ten specialities earlier this year, NHS England will extend the programme to new treatments and conditions (throughout 2014) | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 13 | Better information about health and care | General Practice information - new information about the quality of care provided by GP practice and associated health outcomes wioll be made availablem, both as open data (Winter 2013) | Completed | No | Yes | No | No |
| 14 | Better information about health and care | Social care transparency - information about care services for around 10,000 care homes made available as open data in the Summer of 2014 | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 15 | Better information about health and care | Extending the Friends and Family test - the successful Friends and Family test programme that asks patients whether they would recommend the hospital services they used to friends or family members will be extended to cover GP practices, community and mental health services in December 2014 and to all other NHS services by the end of March 2015 | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 16 | Better information about health and care | Patients in control - newly developed Patient Centred Outcome Measurement (PCOM) tools will provide new insights into how well services for people with 20 different rare and complex conditions are meeting the needs of their patients | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 17 | Better information about health and care | Better open data - to help people to locate and use data about health more easily NHS England, with the Health and Social Care Information Centre, will comprehensively review the way that data is made available through data.gov.uk We will also increase the availability and accessibility of key reference data which is available as open data including geographical information (Summer 2014) | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 18 | Better information about health and care | By June 2014, clinical data from every GP practice will be linked to data from hospitals providing NHS funded care through the care.data initiative | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 19 | Better information about health and care | We have an ambitious programme of work to support patients to take greater control of their own health and wellbeing. This will be supported by their General Practice which will office a range of digital services. Our ambition is that by March 2015 everyone who wishes to will be able to: o order repeat prescriptions and book appointments online o view their own GP record, including test results, online o have secure electronic communication with their practice | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 20 | Capability | The Government will continue to emphasise the importance of data analytics skills across all disciplines of the civil service and through the new Civil Service Professions Council, which will be the co-ordinating body, bringing the professions together to work as a coherent force and maximise their overall contribution to capability building. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 21 | Capability | Through the Information Economy Strategy, the Government will support an industry-led exercise to develop a digital skills strategy. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 22 | Capability | BIS will work with MoJ and ICO through the ongoing activity following the Information Economy Strategy to make re-users of data more fully aware of their obligations. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 23 | Civil contingencies | The Government Chief Scientific Advisor and the National Statistician who are interested in identifying those datasets of critical importance, whether for national security, responding to emergencies or more widely informing public debate, will conduct a review to set out this sub-set of data. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 24 | Construction sector transparency | Apply CoST disclosure requirements on additional projects in the UK by 2015 | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 25 | Construction sector transparency | Use government's bilateral and multilateral relationships to encourage the establishment of at least four new national CoST programmes by 2015 in countries where DFID is working | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 26 | Data sharing | The Law Commission is conducting a scoping project on data sharing between public bodies looking specifically at the barriers public bodies might be encountering to data sharing that is preventing them fulfilling their duties to citizens. The report will consider whether any such barriers are legal, rather than cultural or based on a misunderstanding of the law. The review is due to report in the Spring of 2014. | Behind schedule | Yes | No | No | No |
| 27 | Data standards | We will undertake a metadata mapping exercise across UK government ‘corporate’ data and establish standardised common vocabulary for use in dataset publication. | Behind schedule | No | No | No | Yes |
| 28 | Data standards | We will create a data dictionary to ensure consistent use of vocabulary in metadata going forward. | On track | No | No | No | Yes |
| 29 | Data standards | Departments should put all their datasets currently available under the Open Government Licence through the Open Data Institute’s open data certification process and make the outcome available through data.gov.uk. | On track | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| 30 | data.gov.uk | data.gov.uk will be refreshed to incorporate new base coding and a new design to allow for easier discovery of content. | Complete | No | No | No | Yes |
| 31 | data.gov.uk | We will refresh departmental profiles on data.gov.uk that will set out clearly existing commitments to release data, including a user friendly publication schedule. The improved profiles will act as a real time assessment of the delivery of each department. | On track | No | No | No | Yes |
| 32 | data.gov.uk | data.gov.uk will launch a concept package ‘data.gov.uk ToGo’ that will allow others to quickly establish a data portal of their own. | Complete | No | No | No | Yes |
| 33 | data.gov.uk | The refreshed departmental profiles on data.gov.uk will set out current commitments to release data which departments have made in line with the two letters from the Prime Minister, the 2011 Growth Review, the Open Data White Paper and existing Open Data Strategies as well as the Transparency sections of Departmental Business plans in a more user friendly way. These improved profiles will set out the deadlines for these commitments and act as a real-time assessment of the delivery of each department and, once launched, will replace the existing Quarterly Written Ministerial Statement on open data made by the Minister for Cabinet Office. Highlights will be incorporated into the UK's refreshed OGP National Action Plan in October. All of these assessments will also be made avaiable as open data so they can be more easily re-used by others. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 34 | data.gov.uk | data.gov.uk team will develop a process to identify datasets which have not yet been listed by departments | Complete | No | No | Yes | No |
| 35 | Digital records | By April 2014, The National Archives will deliver a fully operational mechanism for the accessioning and preservation of digital records - the Digial Records Infrastructure (DRI) | Completed | No | Yes | No | No |
| 36 | Digital records | By April 2015, The National Archives will have an efficient, scalable and sustainable process for the transfer of digital records to the DRI supported by publicly available guidance on its website and training for transferring departments | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 37 | Digital records | By 2023, the transition to the 20 year rule will be complete; departmental compliance in transferring records to The National Archives under the Public Records Act is measured in its bi-annual Records Transfer Report, which details statistics on the status of departments' progress | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 38 | Draft legislation | The procedure and timescales for publishing bills in draft is set by the Cabinet Office’s Parliamentary Business and Legislation Secretariat and Parliament. At an early stage in the process of approving work on new legislation, the government will set out its commitment to publish a bill in draft on GOV.UK (or the reasons why publication is not appropriate in a particular case). | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 39 | Draft legislation | The effect of publication will be evaluated on a case by case basis. This will take into account levels of stakeholder engagement in policy development. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 40 | Engagement | We will develop a strategy for wider engagement to drive the release, publication and use of Government data | Complete | No | No | No | Yes |
| 41 | Engagement | The UK government will review and expand the current information guides available on data.gov.uk to explain UK open data initiatives. | On track | No | No | No | Yes |
| 42 | Engagement | The Transparency Team will start to blog on a monthly basis from June about the delivery of the domestic transparency agenda. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 43 | Engagement | We will consider how best to draw upon experts from within and out with government and will feed this recommendation into our fuller governance review | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 44 | Engagement | The Government agrees that there are further positive steps that can be taken in response to Stephan’s recommendations, building on existing work. In particular, through increased promotion of what data and support is available to raise greater awareness. The PDG communications group will commit to taking this action forward. They will ensure wider promotion of data availability going forward via co-ordinated publicity, and will support wider government efforts to give clarity to existing and future data releases. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 45 | Engagement | The Government will also work with the Public Data Group and other interested stakeholders to provide more support for third-party users including ‘hack days’ and data-user competitions, such as the successful GeoVation programme run by Ordnance Survey. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 46 | Engagement | The Cabinet Office will work with departments, ALBs, and the Open Data User Group to develop a programme of engagement with users to encourage greater assessment of datasets | Behind schedule | No | No | Yes | No |
| 47 | Extractives | The UK establishes an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) multi-stakeholder group | Completed | No | Yes | No | No |
| 48 | Extractives | The UK government consults on draft transposition legislation for the Accounting Directive | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 49 | Extractives | The UK is formally recognised as an EITI candidate country | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 50 | Extractives | The UK completes transposition of the Accounting Directive and accompanying guidance recommends that UK-registered extractive companies publish data in an open and accessible format | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 51 | Extractives | The UK publishes its first EITI report and the multi-stakeholder group will have considered options to publish it in an open and accessible format | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 52 | Extractives | UK legislation comes into force requiring UK-listed and UK registered extractive companies to publish data under the EU Accounting and Transparency Directives | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 53 | Extractives | UK listed and UK registered extractive companies will start to publish data under the EU Directives in an open and accessible format | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 54 | Health information standards | We will comprehensively review the way that health data is made available through data.gov.uk to create a well organised channel with consistent metadata and descriptors. | On track | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 55 | Health information standards | Create a shared space for the NHS experiences of embedding high quality standards into information by October 2013. Then engage with other countries and CSOs to develop an accreditation scheme for countries and orgs to assess their progress | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 56 | Health information standards | Website established (October 2013) | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 57 | Health information standards | Participation in the virtual network by 15 member states and civil society organisations (June 2013) | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 58 | Health information standards | Accreditation system established (Autumn 2014) | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 59 | Legislation | The UK government has set the goal of applying all outstanding legislative effects by the end of 2015. Metrics for the timely release of information against the various legislation are already set and year on year progress can be measured through collection and amalgamating the relevant data sources. Progress towards this is monitored as one of The National Archives’ key performance indicators and reported on in its annual report to Parliament. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 60 | Local Authority Transparency Code | Publish the government response to its consultation on revising the Code, including a draft of the revised Code (November 2013) | Completed | No | Yes | No | No |
| 61 | Local Authority Transparency Code | Issue the revised Local Authorities Data Transparency Code (Winter 2013) | Completed | No | Yes | No | No |
| 62 | Local Authority Transparency Code | Bring into force regulations making it a legal requirement for local authorities to publish data in accordance with the Code (Winter 2013) | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 63 | Local Authority Transparency Code | Work with the sector, eg local governmnet workshops, to diseminate guidance and good practice (Spring to Summer 2014) | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 64 | Local Authority Transparency Code | Work with the Local Government Association and the Information Commissioner's Office to adopt a light touch approach to monitoring and enforcement and determine levels of compliance during the 2014 to 2015 period | Completed | No | Yes | No | No |
| 65 | Local government data | This summer, the Local Government Association will launch its LG Inform tool - allowing authorities to compare their performance on key areas. LG Inform will go live for Local Authorities during September with public access by late Autumn. To integrate Local Authorities more fully into the UK's open data structures and provide one accessible website location, we will develop a local section of data.gov.uk providing a forum to help local authorities share data | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 66 | Local government data | The Cabinet Office will work with the Local Government Association and the Local Public Data Panel to determine how best to consider local authority datasets into future iterations of the NII. | Behind schedule | No | No | Yes | No |
| 67 | National Information Infrastructure | We will create a National Information Infrastructure including through public engagement | Complete | No | No | No | Yes |
| 68 | National Information Infrastructure | UK government will develop and deliver an open data roadmap based on supporting the enhancement of the National Information Infrastructure | On track | No | No | No | Yes |
| 69 | National Information Infrastructure | The UK will launch a National Information Infrastructure (NII) that will take our open data work to a whole new level. This will be a world first in terms of scope, content and ambition. This development covers all aspects of the G8 principles and all high value dataset categories. The NII will contain the data held by government which is likely to have the broadest and most significant economic and social impact if made available and accessible outside of Government. The NII will, by its very nature, be a living infrastructure that will grow over time. | Complete | No | No | No | Yes |
| 70 | National Information Infrastructure | Departments will provide release dates for datasets in the first iteration of the NII, where there are no barriers to publication, and, where there are barrier, provide an explanation for non-publication. | Complete | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 71 | National Information Infrastructure | Departments, including their arm’s length bodies, will ensure that their list of unpublished datasets is comprehensive. | Complete | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 72 | National Information Infrastructure | Departments will ensure that they make public their assessment of the impact of the release of datasets. | Behind schedule | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| 73 | National Information Infrastructure | Cabinet Office Transparency Team will set out a collaborative process for identifying those datasets which should be part of the National Information Infrastructure | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 74 | National Information Infrastructure | As of today we wil be publishing the criteria which determine the National Information Infrastructure for comment on data.gov.uk and inviting comment on them | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 75 | National Information Infrastructure | We will set out what data we have by department and invite comment from users about what data they would like released. We will have a full set outlined for UK NAP. At this point we will highlight those which are of the highest priority. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 76 | National Information Infrastructure | As part of a refreshed Departmental Open Data Strategy approach the Cabinet Office Transparency Team will work with departments to define an inventory of all data that they hold, including that already released on data.gov.uk. Using the criteria above departments will be asked to score theior data inventories to identify their most important datasets. We will also develop functionality so that these inventories can be published so that citizens, businesses and other users can also contribute to the identification of National Information Infrastructure. These full inventories will be published by departments as part of their Open Data Strategies in October, alongside the refreshed OGP National Action Plan. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 77 | National Information Infrastructure | Departments to set out arrangements they have put in place to describe the provenance and ensure the quality and regularity of the release of data they have within the NII by March 2014 | Behind schedule | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 78 | National Information Infrastructure | Departments to develop internal processes which identify unpublished datasets when they are created and ensure that they are added to the inventory on data.gov.uk by March 2014 | Behind schedule | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 79 | National Information Infrastructure | Departments to develop internal processes which ensure that data holders regularly reconsider the use cases for their data by April 2014 | Behind schedule | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 80 | National Information Infrastructure | All central government departments to highlight those datasets which they must provide on a statutory basis by April 2014, followed by their ALBs by September 2014 | Behind schedule | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 81 | National Information Infrastructure | All central government departments to highlight those datasets which it considers fall under their public task by April 2014, followed by their ALBs by September 2014 | Behind schedule | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 82 | Open contracting | Endorse, implement and champion internationally the Open Contracting Principles at the end of October 2013 and continue to assist in the development of a set of open contracting data standard | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 83 | Open contracting | Subject to technical capability, enhance the scope, breadth and usability of published contractual data on the Contracts Finder system to include: o providing greater transparency of contracts awarded overseas, beginning October 2013 o delivering a new procurement pipeline in November 2013 o investigating the feasibility of providing greater transparency of design competitions run by the Technology Strategy Board o engaging with prime contractors to encourage them to provide improved visibility of supply chain opportunities, and explore a means of standardising the publication of sub-contractor details through Contracts Finder to make this data more accessible o investigating the use of open corporate identifiers to allow the data to be more easily compared and linked to other data held about contracting authorities and suppliers; o working with a user group to look at ways of improving site usability to make it easier to publish data and to find opportunities and other data of interest | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 84 | Open contracting | Look to introduce standard transprency clauses into central government contracts in consultation with civil society organisations and the business community | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 85 | Open contracting | Build on the findings from a pilot programme by launching the new Solutions Exchange website during Winter 2013 for small and medium-sized enterprises to pitch innovative solutions to government outside of the formal procurement process, and for government to conduct informal pre-market engagement by providing greater transparency of the challenges and themes to which solutions are needed | Completed | No | Yes | No | No |
| 86 | Open contracting | Take steps to ensure transparency about outsourced services is provided in response to freedom of information requests, by encouraging the use of enforcement of contractual provisions to maintain the levels of transparency provided by the Freedom of Information ACt 2000; revised guidance will be provided in 2014 | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 87 | Open contracting | Publish contracts using the local language where contracts are drawn up with overseas suppliers; we will consider what further steps can be taken to provide greater transparency of contracts to affected communities where additional language barriers occur | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 88 | Open contracting Scotland | In 2014, the Scottish government will undertake external stakeholder engagement on the open contracting commitment. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 89 | Open contracting Scotland | We will monitor the extents to which contracts are advertised through Public Contracts Scotland and compliance generally with the transparency elements of the Scottish Procurement Reform Bill and our wider procurement reform programme. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 90 | Open data | All government departments will refresh their departmental Open Data Strategies. | Behind schedule | No | No | No | Yes |
| 91 | Open data | We will implement open data commitments as set out in the Open Government Partnership UK National Action Plan 2013. | On track | No | No | No | Yes |
| 92 | Open data | The National Data Strategy will be taken forward through the Information Economy Strategy, published today, and we will set out our implementation plans through the UK OGP National Action Plan, which will be published in October. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 93 | Open government | The UK government will work in partnership with the Civil Society Network to produce the Open Government Partnership UK 2013 National Action Plan to support the open government agenda. | Complete | No | No | No | Yes |
| 94 | Open Policy Making | A meeting during the Autumn will identify candidate projects, with each requiring approval from their department and ministerial structures before they can formally be included. A final list will be agreed by January 2014. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 95 | Open Policy Making | The development and learning from the projects will be shared via existing open policy making networks throughout the process. Those outside of government will be actively encouraged to comment on, and contribute to, progress. In early 2015, after the completion of the projects, the government will set out how it will embed the learning and successful approaches uncovered across the civil service policy profession. | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 96 | OpenDataCommunities | A robust, reliable and trusted source of DCLG data in fully open, accessible forms – with data content delivered according to user demand and priorities established under the NII and supporting strategies | Behind schedule | No | Yes | No | No |
| 97 | OpenDataCommunities | Active, sustained and significant use of sources in OpenDataCommunities by local authorities, public sector agencies, voluntary and charity organisations, and the private sector. To be achieved through pro-active, targeted promotion and communications, working closely with users to capture and disseminate evidence of benefits achieved | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 98 | OpenDataCommunities | Strong and effective partnerships with key national and local bodies, thereby maximising reuse of OpenDataCommunities’ standards and best practices | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 99 | OpenDataCommunities | Alignment of OpenDataCommunities with data.gov.uk, and new data visualisation and collaboration tools emerging on the single government domain – thereby maximising opportunities for DCLG content to be combined with and re-used alongside related public sector sources | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 100 | OpenDataCommunities | Development of OpenDataCommunities as the authoritative source for core reference data – ie supporting linking and joining of related datasets. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 101 | Police records | The working group will report by 30 June 2014. If it supports the recommendation then it will propose a resourcing and implementation plan to ministers for consideration | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 102 | Public sector information reuse | The EU Directive on the re-use of PSI will be adopted in Summer 2013. The Government aims to transpose the terms of the revised Directive into UK legislation during 2014-15. | On track | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| 103 | Public sector information reuse | We agree with the Shakespeare Review that the governance surrounding PSI has become overly complex, and we will initiate a review that aims to radically simplify the landscape. To begin with, and in recognition of Stephan’s analysis that this agenda needs a high-level focus, our first step is to create a board from the Data Strategy Board and Public Sector Transparency Board to lead delivery on opening up PSI. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 104 | Public sector information reuse | The Government will review the scope for further supporting smaller enterprises and not-for-profit organisations under the existing framework in place under the Information Fair Trader Scheme run by the National Archives. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 105 | Public sector information reuse | Public consultation on the legislation will take place in 2014. Accelerated delivery of the new mandatory framework for re-use is the goal to ensure that the UK meets its aims to remove unnecessary barriers to public sector information. Practical tools, guidance and an effective redress mechanism will be in place to support and meet this commitment. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 106 | Reporting | Departments will report through the Transparency Quarterly Written Ministerial Statement (QWMS) on the comprehensiveness of their unpublished dataset inventories starting with the QWMS return for quarter 4 | On track | No | No | Yes | No |
| 107 | Reporting | Departments will report through the Transparency QWMS on the work they are undertaking to engage new users in helping to define further uses for their data starting with the QWMS return for quarter 4. | On track | No | No | Yes | No |
| 108 | Right to data | Before Summer Recess we will commence amendments to the FOI Act which will give a ‘right to data’ wherever release of a data set is required by that Act. Where reasonably practicable, any public authority will be required to release such a data set in a machine readable format. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 109 | Sciencewise | The open policy making commitments made by the UK government now provide an opportunity for Sciencewise to build on its experience in the very heart of government policy making. The Sciencewise commitments will commence in early 2014 with the aim of piloting and evaluating throughout 2014 and embedding during 2015. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 110 | Social investment | We will be reporting on the international commitments by the end of 2014 through the Social Impact Investment Taskforce | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 111 | Social investment | We will provide an annual update of progress on domestic commitments, as part of HMG's wider Social Investment Strategy, also in 2014 | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 112 | Trading funds | Land Registry and Companies House have reviewed or are currently reviewing their business strategies. The Shareholder Executive will report on progress in the Autumn. Furthermore, the Government continues to keep all of the PDG Trading Funds under review and ensure that the organisational structures continue to deliver open data whilst ensuring best value for money for the tax-payer. | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 113 | Weather data | The Met Office is working with the Open Data User Group, small businesses and other users to expand their already substantial portfolio of open data, by increasing access to historic weather observations. Over the summer 2013, a working group will collect and define the user requirements and parameters for the historic data, followed by user testing of access to the additional years of historic data in Autumn 2013. The aim is to complete this phase by spring 2014 | Complete | Yes | No | No | No |
| 114 | Whistleblowing | The changes that have already been introduced will be reviewed as part of the wider evaluation strategy for the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. This is a five year plan and will draw conclusions by 2018. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |
| 115 | Whistleblowing | The call for evidence will close on 1 November 2013. The UK government will then consider the responses, along with the report from the Whistleblowing Commission, supported by Public Concern at Work to identify solutions. | On track | No | Yes | No | No |