UK Government Data Search

Search 31 UK-focused public data products in one Actor — Charity Commission, ICO register, planning and construction signals, NHS and public-health discovery, tribunal and case-law search, and procurement notices from England, Scotland, and Wales.

• ✅ Search 31 UK-focused SIP data products across business, construction, health, legal, and procurement
• ✅ Pull registry-style records, planning records, dataset catalogs, official links, tribunal results, and procurement notices in one workflow
• ✅ Run one query across England, Scotland, and Wales instead of checking separate public portals manually
• ✅ Export results as Excel, CSV, or JSON, or connect the Actor to Apify MCP, API, Make, n8n, or Zapier
• ✅ Current Apify listing is pay per usage, so you can start small and scale only when the workflow proves useful

UK public data is spread across separate registers, finder endpoints, CKAN catalogs, planning systems, tribunal pages, and procurement portals. If you want to answer a practical question like "Does this organisation appear in the charity and ICO registers?", "What planning or construction activity is happening around this area?", "Are there new procurement notices matching our service?", or "Where do I start looking for tribunal decisions on this topic?", the usual workflow is messy and repetitive.

This Actor turns that fragmented process into one search step.

It is also important to be precise about what this product is. This is a UK public-data search and discovery layer, not a single UK master database. Some sources return direct structured records. Some return dataset metadata. Some return official links. Some return notice feeds. That mix is exactly why the Actor is useful, and also why the README should describe it honestly.

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What you can do with it

1. Check a charity, organisation, or name across the Charity Commission and ICO register

One common workflow in the UK is a quick public-records check on an organisation: is it a registered charity, who appears in the trustee extract, and does it show up in the ICO fee payers register? Normally that means jumping between multiple public pages and running the same query several times. Here you can do it in one run.

This is useful for:

• Partner or supplier screening
• Public-record due diligence
• Compliance and governance research
• Journalist or analyst background checks

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	Oxfam, Mind, London Wildlife Trust
Categories	Business only
Max results per source	25

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
Charity Commission register	business_name, charity_number, company_number, status, source_url
Charity Commission trustees	trustee_name, organisation_number, registered_charity_number, appointment_date
ICO fee payers register	business_name, license_id, license_type, expiry_date, city, source_url

That means one dataset can immediately tell you whether the same organisation name appears in charity records, trustee records, and ICO registration records without opening each register separately.

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2. Scan planning and construction activity around a project, address, or local authority

If your workflow touches property, urban planning, construction services, or local market research, public planning and construction signals are often the first useful layer. This Actor combines four different UK construction-oriented products:

• PlanIt planning applications
• Planning Data local planning authority entities
• Camden Street Works Register
• HSE Construction RIDDOR KPI Dashboard

These are not the same kind of record, and that is exactly why combining them is useful. You can search for local planning applications, inspect planning authority entities, spot live or recent street works, and pull construction incident dashboard rows in one place.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	Camden, construction, Oxford Street, extension
Categories	Construction only
Max results per source	50

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
PlanIt planning applications	permit_id, permit_type, status, address, application_date, issue_date
Planning Data entities	permit_type, permit_id, source_jurisdiction, status
Camden street works	permit_id, permit_type, status, address, contractor_name, application_date
HSE construction dashboard	permit_type, permit_subtype, status, description, city, contractor_name

This is especially useful when you are not asking one narrow planning question, but trying to build a broader view of construction activity, planning environment, and operational signals around a location or topic.

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3. Discover NHS and public-health datasets without manually browsing multiple portals

The health side of UK public data is often messy because useful information is split between service search pages, organisation directories, open-data catalogs, dashboard links, and dataset discovery pages. This Actor gives you one place to search those public discovery layers.

Current health coverage includes:

• NHS service search links
• NHS ODS or ORD catalog links
• NHSBSA open-data catalog search
• Public Health Scotland open-data catalog search
• UKHSA dashboard links
• data.gov health dataset catalog search
• data.gov NHS dataset catalog search

This is valuable when the job is not "return one perfect canonical facility table" but rather "show me what official public-health and NHS discovery surfaces exist for this topic."

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	dentist, vaccination, prescribing, mental health
Categories	Health only
Max results per source	30

What you get back:

Source type	What you can expect
NHS service discovery	Official service links and basic discovery metadata
ODS or ORD links	Directory-style organisation discovery pages
CKAN dataset catalogs	Dataset titles, publisher names, notes, modified dates, source URLs
UKHSA dashboard links	Official dashboard discovery results
data.gov catalogs	Dataset metadata from public catalog search

This is a good fit for researchers, analysts, policy teams, healthcare market intelligence workflows, and AI agents that need to discover which official public-health surfaces exist before going deeper.

It is not the same thing as a complete unified NHS facility database, and the README should not claim that it is.

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4. Search tribunal decisions, case law, and court or tribunal discovery pages across official UK channels

The legal side of the UK public web is not one database either. Some material sits in Find Case Law. Some appears in GOV.UK tribunal decision finders. Some is best treated as court or tribunal directory discovery. This Actor gives you a broad legal starting point when you want to search across the public surfaces first.

Current legal coverage includes:

• Find Case Law search
• Find Case Law document XML resolution
• GOV.UK tribunal decision finders
• UTIAC decisions
• GOV.UK court and tribunal directory links

The 13 legal products cover areas such as:

• Employment Tribunal
• Employment Appeal Tribunal
• Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Tax and Chancery Tribunal
• Residential Property Tribunal
• Information Rights Tribunal
• Immigration and asylum-related tribunal discovery
• Charity Tribunal
• Transport Tribunal
• Court and tribunal directory pages

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	redundancy, housing dispute, freedom of information, asylum
Categories	Legal only
Max results per source	20

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
Find Case Law	case_id, case_name, court, decision_date, neutral_citation, source_url
Tribunal decision finders	case_name, court, decision_date, description, source_url
Court and tribunal directory	case_name, court, description, source_url

This is helpful for:

• Initial legal research triage
• Policy and regulatory monitoring
• Journalism and public-interest research
• AI agents that need a public-source discovery layer before deeper analysis

This Actor is still a search layer, not a full legal research platform, and not every legal source returns full-text content in the same way.

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5. Monitor procurement opportunities across the main UK public procurement portals

If your team sells into the UK public sector, procurement is one of the most practical uses of this Actor. Instead of checking multiple portals individually, you can search across:

• Contracts Finder
• Find a Tender
• Public Contracts Scotland
• Sell2Wales

That means one run can cover England and UK-wide procurement feeds, plus Scotland and Wales, with one shared search workflow.

What you enter:

What	Example
Search terms	facilities management, cyber security, consultancy, software
Categories	Procurement only
Max results per source	50

What you get back:

Source	Example fields
Contracts Finder	opportunity_id, title, agency, posted_date, response_deadline, description
Find a Tender	opportunity_id, opportunity_type, title, agency, posted_date, response_deadline
Public Contracts Scotland	opportunity_id, title, agency, description, source_url
Sell2Wales	opportunity_id, title, agency, response_deadline, address, source_url

This is a good fit for:

• Weekly tender monitoring
• Public-sector business development
• Buyer and sector watchlists
• Automation that routes fresh notices into Slack, email, or CRM

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6. Use it as a UK public-data tool inside AI or automation workflows

This Actor is not just for manual export. It also works well as a UK public-data search tool inside AI agents, MCP setups, and no-code automations.

Typical workflows:

• Ask an AI assistant to check an organisation across charity, ICO, procurement, and legal sources
• Run a scheduled weekly procurement watchlist
• Send fresh tribunal or case-law search results into a spreadsheet
• Build a UK public-sector research assistant that starts with public discovery before deeper analysis

Because the Actor already standardizes the run process, your AI or automation layer does not need to understand each UK portal separately.

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How to use (no code required)

1. Open the Actor on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Add one or more searchTerms.
3. Choose which categories to include:
   • includeBusiness
   • includeConstruction
   • includeHealth
   • includeLegal
   • includeProcurement
4. Set maxResultsPerSource based on whether you want a quick exploratory run or a broader pull.
5. Click Start.
6. Review the results in the dataset tab and export as Excel, CSV, or JSON.

Example search terms that work well:

• Oxfam
• mental health
• employment tribunal
• Camden
• cyber security
• housing
• procurement

If you are exploring first, start with:

• one or two search terms
• one or two categories
• maxResultsPerSource around 20 to 30

That keeps cost and noise low while you validate whether the source mix is useful for your workflow.

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What you get back

Every result row includes shared metadata so you can see where it came from and which query matched:

• _product_id
• _source
• _search_term
• _collected_at

The rest of the fields depend on the source family. That variation is expected and reflects the real shape of the underlying UK public data.

Typical business fields:

• business_name
• charity_number
• license_id
• license_type
• status
• city
• source_url

Typical construction fields:

• permit_id
• permit_type
• permit_subtype
• status
• address
• description
• application_date
• issue_date

Typical health fields:

• facility_id
• facility_name
• facility_type
• price_reference
• record_updated_at
• source_url

Typical legal fields:

• case_id
• case_name
• court
• decision_date
• neutral_citation
• source_url

Typical procurement fields:

• opportunity_id
• opportunity_type
• title
• agency
• posted_date
• response_deadline
• description
• source_url

Example output shapes:

{
  "_source": "charity_commission_register",
  "_search_term": "Oxfam",
  "business_name": "OXFAM",
  "charity_number": "202918",
  "status": "Registered",
  "source_url": "https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/..."
}

{
  "_source": "planit_planning_applications",
  "_search_term": "Camden",
  "permit_id": "1234567",
  "permit_type": "Full Planning Permission",
  "status": "Decided",
  "address": "Camden, London",
  "description": "Extension and alterations"
}

{
  "_source": "public_health_scotland_catalog_search",
  "_search_term": "mental health",
  "facility_name": "Mental Health Inpatient Activity",
  "facility_type": "Public Health Scotland",
  "record_updated_at": "2026-03-11T12:00:00Z",
  "source_url": "https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/..."
}

{
  "_source": "employment_tribunal",
  "_search_term": "redundancy",
  "case_name": "Example v Example Ltd",
  "court": "Employment Tribunal",
  "decision_date": "2026-03-15",
  "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/..."
}

{
  "_source": "find_tender",
  "_search_term": "cyber security",
  "opportunity_id": "ocds-12345",
  "title": "Cyber Security Managed Service",
  "agency": "Example Authority",
  "response_deadline": "2026-05-08T12:00:00Z"
}

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Coverage

This Actor currently exposes 31 UK-focused SIP data products across five groups:

Category	Count	Included products
Business	3	Charity Commission register, Charity Commission trustees, ICO fee payers register
Construction	4	PlanIt planning applications, Planning Data authority entities, Camden street works, HSE construction dashboard
Health	7	NHS service links, NHS ODS or ORD links, NHSBSA catalog, Public Health Scotland catalog, UKHSA dashboard links, data.gov health and NHS catalogs
Legal	13	Find Case Law search and XML, tribunal decision finders, UTIAC, court and tribunal directory links
Procurement	4	Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales

Business coverage

The business side is strong for public charity and ICO registration workflows:

• uk_charity_commission_register
• uk_charity_commission_trustees
• uk_ico_fee_payers_register

What this means in practice:

• Good for charity and data-protection register checks
• Good for trustee and organisation research
• Not a substitute for broader UK corporate registry coverage

Construction coverage

The construction side mixes planning applications, planning authority entities, local street works, and HSE construction incident dashboard data:

• uk_planit_planning_applications
• uk_planning_data_entities
• uk_camden_street_works_register
• uk_hse_construction_riddor_kpi

What this means in practice:

• Good for exploratory planning and construction research
• Good for local activity signals
• Not a claim that every UK local authority planning system is fully mirrored here

Health coverage

The health group is intentionally described as a discovery layer:

• uk_nhs_service_search_links
• uk_nhs_ods_ord_catalog_links
• uk_nhsbsa_open_data_catalog_search
• uk_public_health_scotland_catalog_search
• uk_ukhsa_dashboard_links
• uk_data_gov_health_dataset_catalog_search
• uk_data_gov_nhs_dataset_catalog_search

What this means in practice:

• Strong for discovering official public NHS and health resources
• Useful for finding dataset pages, service pages, and dashboards
• Not a single canonical hospital or provider master dataset

Legal coverage

The legal group spans official search and discovery surfaces:

• uk_find_case_law_search
• uk_find_case_law_document_xml
• GOV.UK tribunal decision products
• uk_utiac_decisions_search
• uk_govuk_find_court_links

What this means in practice:

• Strong starting point for public legal discovery
• Useful for tribunal monitoring and case-law triage
• Not a full legal research platform with uniform full-text coverage

Procurement coverage

The procurement group covers the main UK public notice surfaces in the current actor:

• uk_contracts_finder_ocds_search
• uk_find_tender_ocds_search
• uk_public_contracts_scotland_ocds_search
• uk_sell2wales_notice_search

What this means in practice:

• Good for UK public procurement monitoring
• Good for supplier watchlists and market scanning
• Returns notices and notice-feed style records, not bid-management workflow objects

Important exclusions

There are also two important boundaries worth stating clearly:

• Companies House products exist elsewhere in the SIP system, but they are auth-gated and are not part of this Actor's live public scope.
• CQC location search also exists in the broader system, but it is auth-gated and not part of this Actor's live public scope.

That is why this Actor is best understood as a UK public-data discovery and search layer built from the currently public, active product set.

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Pricing

This Actor is currently listed on Apify as pay per usage.

The safest way to check the live commercial terms is the pricing tab, because pricing can change independently of the README:

• https://apify.com/lentic_clockss/uk-data-search/pricing

Practical cost tips:

• Turn off categories you do not need
• Start with fewer search terms
• Use smaller maxResultsPerSource for exploratory runs
• Expand only after you confirm which source families are actually useful

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Connect to your tools

This Actor works in at least four common ways:

Workflow	How it fits
Apify UI	Manual runs and exports
Apify API	Trigger runs and fetch datasets programmatically
Apify MCP	Use lentic_clockss/uk-data-search inside AI clients and assistants
Make / n8n / Zapier	Automate monitoring, routing, and alerts

This makes it easy to turn the Actor into:

• a weekly procurement monitor
• a UK public-records check step in an internal workflow
• an AI research assistant tool
• a dataset discovery step before deeper scraping or analysis

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When to use something else

Use this Actor when you want broad UK public-data discovery across categories.

Use something else when the task is narrower and deeper:

• Use a dedicated procurement actor if procurement monitoring is the whole job.
• Use a dedicated legal source or actor if one tribunal or case-law system is the whole workflow.
• Use a dedicated company-registry product if your real need is corporate registry depth rather than charity or ICO coverage.
• Use a dedicated healthcare dataset if you need canonical provider or facility coverage instead of discovery links and dataset catalogs.

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FAQ

Is this a complete UK government database?

No. It is a UK public-data search layer across 31 SIP products. Those products include registry records, planning records, catalogs, official links, tribunal result sets, and procurement notices.

Why does the page say 31 products instead of 31 databases?

Because that is the accurate description. Some sources are direct record sources, but others are discovery links, dataset catalogs, or notice feeds. Calling all of them databases would overstate what the actor does.

Does it include Companies House?

Not in the current live public scope of this Actor. Companies House products exist elsewhere in the SIP system, but they are auth-gated and not part of this public actor flow.

Does it include CQC?

Not in the current live public scope of this Actor for the same reason: the underlying source is auth-gated.

Does it include full NHS hospital data?

No. The health side is mainly a public discovery layer across service links, organisation links, dashboard links, and dataset catalogs.

Are the legal results official?

They come from official UK public sources such as Find Case Law, GOV.UK tribunal decision finders, and official court or tribunal directories. But this Actor is still a search layer and not a substitute for source-by-source legal verification in high-stakes work.

Is this useful for procurement monitoring?

Yes. That is one of the strongest use cases. The procurement group pulls together Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland, and Sell2Wales in one run.

Can I use it from ChatGPT, Claude, or an internal AI tool?

Yes. That is a strong fit, especially through Apify MCP or API-based workflows.

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Also Available

• Direct API: https://opendata.best/api/v1/data
• Postman: https://www.postman.com/kaneliu10/sip-data-products-api
• Publisher page: https://apify.com/lentic_clockss