Government Organisation Register (GB-GOR)

List Type: secondary

How to use

The code for this list is
GB-GOR. When you have located the organization you wish to identify in this list, you should either:

Enter it in an identifier database field prefixed with GB-GOR.

GB-GOR-[ IDENTIFIER ]

Examples

              
GB-GOR-OT1211
              
GB-GOR-PB1204
              
GB-GOR-EA1113

Alternatively, use it within a two-part identifier, with GB-GOR as the 'scheme', and the identifier you have located as the 'identifier' field.

Description

The UK Government Organisation Register was a service provided by the Government Digital Service which retired on March 15 2021. It contained an identifier for every government body with a presence on the gov.uk single domain.

This covered government departments, agencies and Arms Length Bodies (ALBs).

Each organisation was assigned an alphanumeric identifier, and the register also included website addresses, that could be mapped to entries in the GB-GOVUK identifier list.

Coverage: GB

Search options

The list was accessible as open data as part of the OpenRegister platform. The historic data is provided by the National Archives Government web archive.

Find and use identifiers

The identifier is available in the 'government-organisation' field within the register. Identifiers are short alphanumeric strings.

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