Health

NHS Choices API Locations of doctors, conditions by body-part, NHS news edit delete
Department of Health tenders edit delete

Education

UniStats University performance/student satisfaction data. edit delete
OFSTED search returns results ripe for scraping (HTML / PDF. Official) edit delete
DCSF List of Schools in Excel format edit delete
DCSF List of Schools in SQL format (zipped) edit delete
School Guru School application admission calculator (covers Hertfordshire so far) edit delete
Events lists for young people edit delete
University Course Data A Large SQL dump with approximately 50,000 entries edit delete

Environment

RecycleNow locations of recycling / what you can recycle by postcode (requires screen scraping) edit delete
Rubbish and recycling collections in Haringey edit delete
Rubbish and recycling collections in Stratford Upon Avon edit delete
Merton Collection edit delete
Kingston Collection edit delete
Locations of Allotments **NOTE - The link doesn't seem to be working** go to the home page and select the link 'Map' link in the top right you will then be presented with a page that has a register link in it. You can register yourself. edit delete
Ratemyplace Food Safety Scores for Staffordshire Local Authorities edit delete
Flood warnings requires scraping -- scraping virtually impossible to due ridiculous asp.net /seanw edit delete
Air quality data spreadsheet sent by email edit delete
MAGIC Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside holds environmental datasets edit delete

Crime / Policing

Where to register for a passport or ID card (Directgov mobile API) edit delete
UK Sentencing Guidelines (HTML / PDF. Official) edit delete
Recorded Crime -England and Wales (HTML + export. Official) edit delete
London Safer Neighbourhoods Lookup by postcode edit delete
Western Counties Police Helicopter edit delete
UK Threat Level edit delete
Judicial and court statistics Statistics on criminal and civil courts in England and Wales edit delete
Coroners: statistics on deaths reported Annual National Statistics on deaths reported to coroners, including inquests and post-mortems held, inquest verdicts returned and finds reported to coroners under treasure legislation. edit delete
Sentencing statistics The latest annual National Statistics on sentencing, released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. edit delete
Court customer satisfaction survey results The bulletin presents the findings of the second year (2007/08) results from Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS) court user survey. edit delete
Knife crime sentencing stats edit delete
Time intervals for criminal proceedings in magistrates' courts How long does the average case of each type take? edit delete
People in jail Monthly xls files of the number of people in jail in the UK edit delete

Jobs and the economy

UK economic data available as html or text downloads edit delete
Various economic data edit delete
Jobcentre Plus jobs Sam Smith has a scraped copy of this data with postcodes. edit delete
companies house xml schemas and examples edit delete
companies house xml faq edit delete
List of UK government suppliers edit delete
Civil Service jobs API vacancies from all central govt/national govt bodies edit delete

Parliament

TheyWorkForYou.com API (API of hansard, MPs, Postcode to constituency etc.) edit delete
TheyWorkForYou.com Feeds (various feeds. Third-party) edit delete
Historic Hansard (Feeds of search terms. Official beta project) edit delete
UK Parliamentary Calendar (Feeds. Official) edit delete
UK Parliament Twitter (Feed, Official) edit delete
UK Parliament YouTube (Feed, Official) edit delete
UK Parliament Flickr (Feed & API access, Official) edit delete
Privy Council Decisions (HTMl / word files, scrapable. Official) edit delete
Public Whip (voting records, attendance and rebelliousness data for MPs since 1997) edit delete
TweetMinster (Unofficial collection of politicians on Twitter) edit delete
Interesting data on General Election votes and constituency boundary changes edit delete
Election Leaflets Database a database of election leaflets edit delete

Consultations and Government Notices

UK Government Consultations edit delete
London Gazette Government notices about: State, Parliament, Ecclesiastical, Public Finance, Transport, Planning, Health, Environment, Water, Agriculture & Fisheries, Energy, Post & Telecom., Other Notices, Competition, Corporate Insolvency, Personal Insolvency, Companies & Financial Regulation, Partnerships, Societies Regulation, Personal Legal - available in RDFa edit delete
Downing Street press releases edit delete
The Government Says.com press releases and lots of RSS/cached stuff edit delete

Travel

TFL Tube Updates API Ben Dodson has created a REST-ful API for TFL data including json/xml responses and ability to view archive TFL data. edit delete
TFL data scraped Tom Taylor is working on creating an API to TFL data by screen scraping the site. edit delete
BBC Travel (Feeds) edit delete
NAPTAN National Public Transport Access Node database locations for all bus stops, train stations etc, schema details at http://www.naptan.org.uk/schema/schemas.htm (raw data under very closed licence) (data is soon to be imported under a free licence into OpenStreetMap) edit delete
National Public Transport Gazetteer (names of towns and places etc.) edit delete
Official Live Departure Boards API (Official, SOAP, API) - National Rail Enquiries edit delete

Local information

StreetWire.org Licensing applications, local news, blogs, fire incidents, crime. All geocoded. edit delete
PlanningAlerts.com API Planning applications API with geo-locations edit delete
GroupsNearYou.com API locations and coverage of local email groups edit delete
Area Profiles (Data about the quality of life and services in your local area) edit delete
CPA scores for your local authority (The Audit Commission has a load of useful data sources available) edit delete
Neighbourhood Statistics Data Exchange (API for wide range of local statistics, Official) edit delete
Geograph API photos of every gridsquare in the UK edit delete
Broadband avalibility by postcode edit delete
Fix my street street issues by postcode edit delete
Council tax time series from DCLG edit delete
Electorate of council areas as JSON edit delete
Council tax band D, 1994-2009, as JSON edit delete
Plings API documentation Places to go and things to do for young people, covers 22 local authorities as of 10/07/2009 edit delete
openlylocal Local Government democratic data opened up and made available through a variety of APIs (XML,JSON, RDFa) edit delete
List of committees edit delete
Minutes and decisions made by a committee edit delete

Maps

Ordance Survey openspace - beautiful maps. Limited API and hefty legal restrictions edit delete
Google Maps - Less details street-level maps. Flexible mashup API. Some evil terms & conditions edit delete
OpenStreetMap - Open licensed maps! Access to underlying vector data. quality and completion is variable. edit delete
OpenStreetMap Xapi - Query specific features / POIs from OpenStreetMap. edit delete
Cloudmade APIs APIs based on OpenStreetMap for custom styled tile images, routing and geocoding (cloudmade's Harry Wood attended rewired state 09. Feel free to contact him) edit delete

Geocoding

Geonames place name gazetteer API edit delete
GAZE place name gazetteer, population density and geoIP API edit delete
Cloudmade geocoding geocoding based on OpenStreetMap edit delete

Other Sources

BAILII is the British and Irish Legal Information Institute edit delete
Eurostat holds statistical datasets on the EU edit delete
Carbon Footprint Information from Defra (via AMEE) You will need an AMEE API key edit delete
World War II Lost Bombers Database edit delete
Timetric contains time-series data from various UK governmental sources, including the UK National Statistics dataset, the UK Crime Survey and DEFRA's CO2 emissions data. edit delete
Government Feeds has collected some useful RSS feeds. edit delete
Data4nr points to about 1,000 datasets, and can be filtered, searched, etc. Many datasets still behind webforms though. edit delete
World Bank Developer Network contains many data sets provided by the World Bank. edit delete
Affiliate Marketing edit delete
WikiPedia Stats edit delete
Dbpedia Contains over 9m entries scraped from the databoxes of Wikipedia edit delete
Freebase edit delete
Data loss log of every publicly reported loss of personnel data in the uk. edit delete
Cinema, gigs and more events API Information on art and entertainment events including venues, showtimes, movie trailers, geocodes and images. One of the most comprehensive events listings database in the country. edit delete

Other countries

GovTrack.us is a giant database of the interests of American politicians. edit delete
TheyWorkForYou.co.nz is like TheyWorkForYou UK but for New Zealand. edit delete
Sunlight Labs has a variety of APIs for working with Congress. edit delete
Apps for Democracy was a competition for user-created mashups of data provided by the Washington DC city government. edit delete
Open Australia TheyWorkForYou for Oz, expanding fast edit delete

Young People

Plings API documentation Places to go and things to do for young people, covers 22 local authorities as of 10/07/2009 with 5000+ activity records per week available; edit delete
V Inspired Voicebox Survey data about young people's attitudes to particular issues; edit delete
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