GovData Docs

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_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

MCP Reference

Full catalogue of tools, resources, and prompts available to your agent.

63 tools 24 resources 34 prompts
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REST API

Every MCP tool and resource is also available as a traditional REST endpoint. Use the API directly from any language or framework.

1

Create an account

Sign up at console.govdata.dev to get your API key.

2

Grab your key

Copy your test key (gd_test_...) from the dashboard.

3

Make a request

Send your first API call. See the quick start guide.

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

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 | MCP: https://mcp.govdata.dev/mcp

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.