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MCP Calendar Tools

Look up upcoming or year-specific bank holidays for England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland. Dates are sourced from the GOV.UK Bank Holidays API and reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Each tool call costs 10 credits. All tools are read-only and idempotent.

Tool Description Parameters
lookup_bank_holidays Look up UK bank holidays — upcoming holidays, by calendar year, or by region (england_and_wales, scotland, northern_ireland). Hyphenated aliases are also accepted. year integer
region string

Related Resources

URI Description
govdata://calendar/bank-holidays/next Next upcoming UK bank holidays by region
govdata://calendar/bank-holidays/{year} UK bank holidays for a specific calendar year

Related Prompts

No MCP prompts are registered for this domain — call the tools above directly; see the prompts index.

Data Coverage

Source GOV.UK Bank Holidays API
Date range 2019 – 2028 (as published by Cabinet Office)
Updated Weekly (Monday)
Limitations Future dates subject to change