Connect your AI agent to UK public data
Tax rates, company finances, property prices, legislation, and economic data — accessible to any AI agent via MCP. One config line, 63 tools.
Quick start
Add this to your agent's MCP config. Get an API key from console.govdata.dev.
{ "mcpServers": { "govdata": { "url": "https://mcp.govdata.dev/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer gd_live_..." } } } }
Choose your agent
Claude Desktop
Add to your config and ask questions in plain English.
Claude Code
UK Government data in your terminal coding workflow.
ChatGPT
Connect as a custom action for tax and company lookups.
Gemini
Use as an extension for Google's AI assistant.
Perplexity
Augment research queries with live UK data.
Any MCP Client
Streamable HTTP transport works with any MCP-compatible app.
MCP Reference
Full catalogue of tools, resources, and prompts available to your agent.
REST API
Every MCP tool and resource is also available as a traditional REST endpoint. Use the API directly from any language or framework.
Grab your key
Copy your test key (gd_test_...) from the dashboard.
Tax
Income tax, NI (17 categories), VAT, HMRC monthly exchange rates, CGT, dividends, student loans, pensions, Corporation Tax, take-home calculator
Companies
5M+ companies, financials, PSC data, ICO registrations, ONS demography, and IPO trade marks
Calendar
Bank holidays by region and year
Employment
Minimum wage, auto-enrolment thresholds, regional and occupational earnings
Benefits
Statutory payments, child benefit, universal credit
Property
Land Registry sales, address search, UK House Price Index, and England council tax by band
Economics
CPI, GDP, unemployment, vacancies, retail sales, population, and monthly HMRC tax receipts and NICs across every published duty
UK trade in goods
Monthly OTS HS2/country flows from 2000 and regional RTS aggregates from 2013
Legislation
Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments
Food Hygiene
Daily FSA ratings for ~611K UK establishments, including FHRS and Scotland's FHIS
Crime
/v1/crime street-level records, categories, and /v1/crime/stop-and-search
Energy
Ofgem price caps plus DESNZ LA consumption and LSOA fuel-poverty statistics
Education
/v1/education/schools Ofsted outcomes by school, postcode, local_authority, phase, and judgement
Vehicles
Quarterly DfT licensing stock and registrations, plus 2025 MOT results and reliability
Charities
/v1/charities/search daily E&W register and annual income history
Procurement
Find a Tender above-threshold and England-focused Contracts Finder below-threshold notices and awards
UK Global Tariff
Commodity classifications and baseline MFN duty expressions
Guides
Data Coverage
| Domain | Source | Records | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tax | HMRC / GOV.UK | Income Tax: 1990-91–2026-27. NI: 1999-00–2026-27. VAT/CGT/dividends/Corporation Tax: 2020-21–2026-27. HMRC exchange rates: monthly from January 2021 | Annually |
| Companies | Companies House + ICO + ONS + IPO | ~5.9M companies; 1,433,320 ICO registrations; 2,532 ONS business-demography observations for 2019–2024; active records from the IPO’s 2018 trade-mark snapshots | Annual to daily |
| Property | HM Land Registry / MHCLG Planning Data | ~31M transactions; 382,258 listed buildings; 11,013 conservation areas (LPA-aggregated, variable coverage) | Daily to monthly |
| Economics | ONS / HMRC | Economic indicators and population, plus all monthly HMRC receipts, NICs, duties, and administered expenditure from April 2017 | Monthly + annual |
| Legislation | The National Archives | All 10 documented legislation series, 2000–present | Weekly; historical backfill is resumable by type and year |
| Food Hygiene | Food Standards Agency | ~611K establishments | Daily |
| Energy | Ofgem | 168 regional rates across current + recent periods | Quarterly |
| Crime | Police.uk | ~15.1M monthly street-level records plus published stop-and-search encounters | Monthly |
| Education | Ofsted | ~22K state-funded school inspections | Monthly |
| Vehicles / MOT | DVSA | 2025 test year, import in progress | Annual |
| Charities | Charity Commission | 397,826 core rows + 1,245,957 annual returns | Daily |
| Procurement | Find a Tender + Contracts Finder | Latest 12 months of OCDS releases | Daily |
| Calendar | GOV.UK | ~280 bank holidays | Weekly |
| Employment | HMRC / GOV.UK / ONS / Gender Pay Gap Service | Wage rates, ASHE earnings & 94,471 unique pay-gap reports (2017-18 to partial 2026-27) | Annually |
| Benefits | DWP / HMRC / GOV.UK | Statutory & benefit rates | Annually |
Base URL:
https://api.govdata.dev/v1
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MCP:
https://mcp.govdata.dev/mcp
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.