UK Government & Public data for AI agents

Give your AI agent access to tax rates, monthly HMRC receipts and NICs, company finances, property prices and planning designations, legislation, population estimates, and UK trade in goods. Ask questions in natural language — your agent handles the rest.

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See it in action

claude — govdata mcp
>
I'll look up BP's company record and check its filing deadlines.
lookup_company("BP plc")
Found: BP P.L.C. (00102498) — Active
company_filing_status(00102498)
The registry lookup confirms BP P.L.C. is active. Filing compliance is calculated from the company record's published due dates.
>
search_companies(query: "BP")
Company profiles come from the active Companies House register
About 5.9 million companies are available for registry lookup, with ONS business births, deaths, active counts, and survival rates for 2019–2024.
>
calculate_take_home(income: 55000, region: "scotland")
Calculated for 2026-27 tax year
On £55,000 in Scotland (2026-27):
Income tax: £11,082 (Starter + Basic + Intermediate + Higher)
National Insurance: £3,111
Take-home: £40,807 (£3,401/month)
>
lookup_bank_holidays(region: "england-and-wales")
Bank-holiday data covers 2019 to 2028
Query holidays by year and by region for England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
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What's available

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Tools

  • Tax Calculations & Comparison
  • Company Analysis
  • Benefits & Employment, including ASHE earnings
  • Property Search, Address Lookup, UK HPI & Council Tax
  • Economics (including monthly HMRC receipts, NICs, retail sales, vacancies, and trade in goods)
  • Legislation
  • Food Hygiene Ratings
  • Energy Price Cap, Consumption & Fuel Poverty
  • Crime & stop and search
  • Calendar & Bank Holidays
24

Resources

  • Tax rates by year
  • VAT rates & bank holidays
  • Employment & benefits rates
  • Inflation & economic data
  • Company statistics & SIC codes
34

Prompts

  • Tax Summary
  • Company Report & Comparison
  • Take-Home & Employer Cost
  • Due Diligence
  • Property Area Report
  • Benefits Eligibility

Reference data

Official HMRC monthly customs and VAT exchange rates are available from January 2021, by month or currency history.

UK Global Tariff

Search HMRC commodity classifications and baseline MFN duty expressions.

GET /v1/tariff/commodities

HMRC tax receipts & NICs

Every monthly receipts and expenditure series HMRC publishes, with annual totals, revisions, and provisional flags.

GET /v1/economics/tax-receipts

Food hygiene ratings

Search ~611K UK establishments by name, postcode, authority, rating, and business type. Updated daily from the FSA.

GET /v1/food-hygiene

Street-level crime

Search anonymised street-level crime, outcomes, and published stop-and-search encounters.

GET /v1/crime

Energy and fuel poverty

Ofgem price caps plus DESNZ local-authority consumption and LSOA LILEE estimates.

GET /v1/energy/consumption

Ofsted school inspections

Find current report-card judgements and legacy grades for state-funded schools in England.

GET /v1/education/schools

ONS ASHE earnings

Compare median and mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings by region, industry, and occupation.

GET /v1/employment/earnings

Employer gender pay gap

Search 94,471 unique employer-year reports from 2017-18 onward and follow published pay-gap histories.

GET /v1/employment/pay-gap

Vehicle licensing & MOT reliability

Explore quarterly DfT stock and registrations by make and model, alongside MOT pass rates and failure reasons.

GET /v1/vehicles/licensing

Charity register & income history

Search the daily England and Wales register and cross-reference charitable companies.

GET /v1/charities/search

ICO fee-payer register

Verify data-protection registrations in the ICO's daily UK-wide register.

GET /v1/companies/ico-registrations

IPO trade marks

Search registered and pending records in the IPO’s open-data snapshots, with clear 2018 staleness caveats.

GET /v1/companies/trademarks

UK procurement coverage

Search Find a Tender above-threshold procurement and England-focused Contracts Finder below-threshold opportunities and awards.

GET /v1/procurement/notices

UK trade in goods

Explore HMRC monthly imports and exports by HS2 chapter, partner country, and UK region.

GET /v1/economics/trade

Calendar & bank holidays

UK bank holidays by year and region, covering 2019 to 2028.

GET /v1/calendar/bank-holidays

Built on live UK tax data

2026-27 rates are live across every calculator. Income Tax data starts at 1990-91; National Insurance data starts at 1999-00.

Marriage & Blind Person's Allowance

Income tax and take-home calculators support Marriage Allowance transfers and Blind Person's Allowance.

17 NI category letters

Employee and employer rates for every National Insurance category — standard, apprentices, Freeports, and Investment Zones.

Directors' NI & Employment Allowance

The directors' annual (cumulative) NI method, plus opt-in Employment Allowance on the employer cost calculator.

7 years of tax history

VAT, Capital Gains Tax, dividend tax, and Corporation Tax answer for every year back to 2020-21.

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