The government is to offer a one-stop shop on the internet for all the services it offers citizens, aiming to put all its service online by 2005 with one central site for people to interact electronically with officials. The current UK Online serice has been deliberately designed to get citizens in and out as quickly as possible, directing them to appropriate services on the relevant government sites, but at the moment there is no way of linking between departments. The proposed site is intended to address that issue, though it isn’t clear yet what will happen to the UK Online portal.
