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Open Government Partnership UK National Action Plan 2013 to 2015 progress summary: 31 January 2015
Updated 10 March 2015
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| Commitment | Milestone reference | Milestone | 4/30/2014 | 30/9/2014 | 31/1/2015 | 30/06/2015 | 31/12/2015 |
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| National Information Infrastructure | 1.01 | Departments to provide release dates for datasets in the first iteration of the NII, where there are no barriers to publication, and, where there are barriers, provide an explanation for non-publication by March 2014 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.02 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Closed | Closed |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.03 | Departments, including their arm's length bodies (ALBs) to ensure that their list of unpublished datasets is comprehensive by March 2014 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.04 | Departments to develop internal processes which identified unpublished datasets when they are created and ensure that they are added to the inventory on data.gov.uk by March 2014 | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.05 | Departments to develop internal processes to ensure that data holders regularly reconsider the use cases for their data by April 2014 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.06 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.07 | Central government departments to highlight those datasets which it considers fall under the public task by April 2014, followed by their ALBs | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.08 | Work with departments and members of the business community and civil society to kick start the work on redefining the NII during Summer 2014. | N/A | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.09 | Engage with departments and stakeholders with the aim of producing a framework for the second iteration of the NII by December 2014. | N/A | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| National Information Infrastructure | 1.10 | Coordinating with departments, to populate the NII with key datasets according to the new framework by June 2015. | N/A | On track | On track | Completed | Completed |
| Health information standards | 2.01 | Website established (October 2013) | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Health information standards | 2.02 | Participation in the virtual network by 15 member states and civil society organisations (June 2013) | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Health information standards | 2.03 | Accreditation system established (Autumn 2014) | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Local Authority Transparency Code | 3.01 | Publish the government response to its consultation on revising the Code, including a draft of the revised Code (November 2013) | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Local Authority Transparency Code | 3.02 | Issue the revised Local Authorities Data Transparency Code (Winter 2013) | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Local Authority Transparency Code | 3.03 | Bring into force regulations making it a legal requirement for local authorities to publish data in accordance with the Code (Winter 2013) | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Local Authority Transparency Code | 3.04 | Work with the sector, eg local government workshops, to diseminate guidance and good practice (Spring to Summer 2014) | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Local Authority Transparency Code | 3.05 | 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 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Social investment | 4.01 | We will be reporting on the international commitments by the end of 2014 through the Social Impact Investment Taskforce | On track | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Social investment | 4.02 | 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 | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Digital records | 5.01 | 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 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Digital records | 5.02 | 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 | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Digital records | 5.03 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | On track |
| Anti-corruption | 6.01 | 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 | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Beneficial ownership | 7.01 | 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 | On track | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Beneficial ownership | 7.02 | A publicly accessible central registry of company beneficial ownership information | N/A | On track | On track | Completed | Completed |
| Beneficial ownership | 7.03 | Fourth Money Laundering Directive (the "Directive") | N/A | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Beneficial ownership | 7.04 | Bilateral and multilateral agreements | N/A | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Beneficial ownership | 7.05 | UK anti-money laundering regime | N/A | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Completed |
| Police records | 8.01 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Construction sector transparency | 9.10 | Apply CoST disclosure requirements on additional projects in the UK by 2015 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Closed |
| Construction sector transparency | 9.20 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Legislation | 10.01 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Behind schedule |
| Whistleblowing | 11.01 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Closed |
| Whistleblowing | 11.02 | 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 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Whistleblowing | 11.03 | Improved Guidance for individuals (by December 2014) The lack of comprehensive guidance available for whistleblowers at the moment from the Government has been highlighted through the call for evidence as insufficient. The Government would like to work with those who are required to navigate the framework more regularly, to contribute to and drive the content of the guidance, to ensure that the information we assemble and publish is actually of benefit to those who need to use it. This may include for example, information on how to blow the whistle, plugging the gap where employers do not have policies and giving examples of what reasonable belief that one of the categories of disclosure has happened, is happening, or is likely to happen may look like, the ways individuals should disclose for the disclosure to be protected and clarifying issues such as the invalidity of gagging clauses. We will identify the relevant bodies and convene a working group to achieve this. | N/A | On track | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed |
| Whistleblowing | 11.04 | Best practice guidance/ non-statutory code of conduct (by December 2014) The protections as currently drafted, do not stipulate a business should have a process or guidance in place for dealing with whistleblowing. We do not want to mandate this, but evidence suggests central guidance would assist business in creating policies for dealing with whistleblowing and help instil a consistent level of best practice across organisations. To support this, we will also create a model whistleblowing policy which can be adopted by business. Again, we will identify the relevant bodies to produce the guidance and model policy. | N/A | On track | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed |
| Whistleblowing | 11.05 | Assessment of the current whistleblowing ET1 referral system (by April 2015) The Government will carry out some analysis of the current ET1 referral system to establish its effectiveness and to understand if improvements need to be made. This will be carried out with both HMCTS and those bodies on the prescribed persons list. | N/A | On track | On track | Completed | Completed |
| Whistleblowing | 11.06 | The introduction of a duty to report (by April 2015) The protections do not stipulate that prescribed persons need to do anything with or about any disclosures they receive. This undermines the system and creates a lack certainty for the whistleblower in relation to what may or may not be done in respect of a disclosure they have made. The Government will introduce a duty on prescribed persons to report annually. We will consult on the detail of the matters which should be included within this report, including matters such as number of disclosures received, numbers investigated, and of those claims investigated, the number of organisations which had a whistleblowing policy in place. We will also consult on how these reports should be published. This will be introduced through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill. | N/A | On track | On track | On track | On track |
| Whistleblowing | 11.07 | Update the prescribed persons list (by April 2015) The list which is maintained through Statutory Instrument contains bodies which are prescribed, for having disclosure made to them. This is published online at gov.uk for ease of reference. The gov.uk information is currently out of date and not an accurate reflection of all the prescribed bodies contained in the list. BIS will commit to ensuring this information is updated online promptly following any changes made by Statutory Instrument and implement a system to ensure this is updated each time the list is amended. This will be helpful to those seeking to rely on it but also show that the Government is committed to keeping the information relevant. We will also commit to reviewing this on an annual basis going forward with Other Government Departments, to ensure the bodies on the list are correct. | N/A | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Whistleblowing | 11.08 | Include relevant groups currently excluded from the protections (by April 2015) We believe there is a clear case for student nurses to be brought into the scope of the whistleblowing framework due to the employment relationship and the nature of the detriment suffered. We also consider other student arrangements similar to student nurses should be included. The Government will therefore bring this group into scope through secondary legislation. For the remaining groups, the Government will not be making any changes at this point but will continue to look at this area with the view to consulting if further changes are considered necessary. | N/A | On track | On track | On track | Behind schedule |
| Whistleblowing | 11.09 | Explore options to celebrate those employers who embrace whistleblowing in their organisations (by April 2015) The Government would like to see the celebration of whistleblowing as a positive tool to aid business. The Government will identify opportunities to celebrate those organisations that embrace whistleblowing and effectively use it as a tool to prevent malpractice. | N/A | On track | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Open contracting | 12.01 | 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 standards | On track | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Open contracting | 12.02 | 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 | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Completed |
| Open contracting | 12.03 | Look to introduce standard transparency clauses into central government contracts in consultation with civil society organisations and the business community | On track | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Open contracting | 12.04 | 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 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Open contracting | 12.05 | 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 | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Open contracting | 12.06 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Closed | Closed |
| Open contracting Scotland | 13.01 | In 2014, the Scottish government will undertake external stakeholder engagement on the open contracting commitment. | On track | On track | Behind schedule | Completed | Completed |
| Open contracting Scotland | 13.02 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Aid transparency | 14.01 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | On track | Completed |
| Aid transparency | 14.02 | 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 | Ahead of schedule | On track | On track | Completed |
| Aid transparency | 14.03 | 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 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Aid transparency | 14.04 | Work with international donors and partner countries to better link development assistance data with partner countries' budget data, through the development of hte 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 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Aid transparency | 14.05 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Aid transparency | 14.06 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Better information about health and care | 15.01 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Completed |
| Better information about health and care | 15.02 | 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 | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Better information about health and care | 15.03 | General Practice information - new information about the quality of care provided by GP practice and associated health outcomes will be made available, both as open data (Winter 2013) | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Better information about health and care | 15.04 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Better information about health and care | 15.05 | 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 | On track | On track | Completed | Completed |
| Better information about health and care | 15.06 | 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 | Behind schedule | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Better information about health and care | 15.07 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Better information about health and care | 15.08 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |
| Better information about health and care | 15.09 | 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 | On track | On track | Completed | Completed |
| Open Policy Making | 16.01 | 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 | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Open Policy Making | 16.02 | 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 | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Completed |
| Open Policy Making | 16.03 | Based on our experience and learning from the first round of projects, we are working to identify two further projects by the end of 2014. | N/A | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Completed |
| Sciencewise | 17.01 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Draft legislation | 18.01 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Draft legislation | 18.02 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| OpenDataCommunities | 19.01 | 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 | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | On track | Completed |
| OpenDataCommunities | 19.02 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| OpenDataCommunities | 19.03 | Strong and effective partnerships with key national and local bodies, thereby maximising reuse of OpenDataCommunities’ standards and best practices | On track | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| OpenDataCommunities | 19.04 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| OpenDataCommunities | 19.05 | Development of OpenDataCommunities as the authoritative source for core reference data – ie supporting linking and joining of related datasets. | On track | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Public Sector Information Directive | 20.01 | 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 | On track | On track | Behind schedule | Completed |
| Extractives | 21.01 | The UK establishes an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) multi-stakeholder group | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Extractives | 21.02 | The UK government consults on draft transposition legislation for the Accounting Directive | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Extractives | 21.03 | The UK is formally recognised as an EITI candidate country | On track | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Extractives | 21.04 | 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 | On track | On track | On track | Completed |
| Extractives | 21.05 | 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 | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Completed |
| Extractives | 21.06 | 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 | On track | Completed | Completed | Completed |
| Extractives | 21.07 | UK listed and UK registered extractive companies will start to publish data under the EU Directives in an open and accessible format | On track | On track | Behind schedule | Behind schedule | Behind schedule |