UK Public Sector Code by Organisation

Format

JSON

Schema

org-mapping.schema.json

Example

{
  "last_updated": "2026-03-30",
  "organisations": [
    {
      "type": "gov_uk",
      "govuk_slug": "home-office",
      "wikidata_id": "Q763388",
      "site_slug": "home-office",
      "site_url": "https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/home-office",
      "github_orgs": ["UKHomeOffice", "UKHomeOfficeForms", "HO-CTO"]
    },
    {
      "type": "english_council",
      "england_planning_data_reference": "COV",
      "wikidata_id": "Q5179058",
      "site_slug": "coventry-city-council",
      "site_url": "https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/coventry-city-council",
      "github_orgs": ["coventry-city-council"]
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "wikidata_id": "Q28530250",
      "site_slug": "city-of-edinburgh-council",
      "site_url": "https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/city-of-edinburgh-council",
      "github_orgs": ["edinburghcouncil"]
    }
  ]
}

Fields

CSV

One row per GitHub organisation.

Example

github_org,org_type,govuk_slug,england_planning_data_reference,wikidata_id,site_slug,site_url
UKHomeOffice,gov_uk,home-office,,Q763388,home-office,https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/home-office
UKHomeOfficeForms,gov_uk,home-office,,Q763388,home-office,https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/home-office
HO-CTO,gov_uk,home-office,,Q763388,home-office,https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/home-office
coventry-city-council,english_council,,COV,Q5179058,coventry-city-council,https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/coventry-city-council
edinburghcouncil,other,,,Q28530250,city-of-edinburgh-council,https://publicsectorcodebyorg.co.uk/org/city-of-edinburgh-council

Columns

Related data sources

Data sources used to build and enrich this site. Many fields in the mapping are keys into these datasets.

• UK X-Gov Open Source Repo Scraper

  GitHub repository data for UK public sector organisations, maintained by the UK cross-government software community.

  Use the github_orgs field to filter repos by owner. Each entry in the scraper JSON has an owner field matching the GitHub organisation name.

• GOV.UK Organisations API

  Official metadata for central government organisations — names, formats, status, parent/child relationships. Open Government Licence.

  Use govuk_slug to query a specific organisation: GET https://www.gov.uk/api/organisations/{govuk_slug}. Or fetch the full list paginated from https://www.gov.uk/api/organisations.

• planning.data.gov.uk — Local authority dataset

  Official metadata for English local authorities — names, types, ONS codes, websites. Open Government Licence.

  Use england_planning_data_reference to query a specific authority: GET https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity.json?dataset=local-authority&reference={england_planning_data_reference}.

• Wikidata

  Structured data about organisations including names, websites, and relationships. CC0.

  Use wikidata_id to look up an entity directly at https://www.wikidata.org/entity/{wikidata_id}, or query via SPARQL at https://query.wikidata.org/sparql using BIND(wd:{wikidata_id} AS ?item).

• Civil Service Statistics

  Annual FTE data for civil service departments and agencies, published by the Cabinet Office. Used to populate Total FTE and Digital & data FTE figures for central government organisations on this site.

  Matched to organisations via GOV.UK organisation titles. Data from Table 8A (FTE by profession and department).

• LGA Quarterly Workforce Survey (QPSES)

  Quarterly headcount and FTE data for English and Welsh local authorities, published by the Local Government Association.

  Used to populate the Total FTE figures shown for English councils on this site. Matched to councils via ONS geography codes.