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UK Data: UK government and law MCP Server

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UK Data: UK government and law is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

UK legislation full text, MPs, petitions, GOV.UK search, food alerts, police neighbourhoods

Uptime history 69 hours of history
69 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
107 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check UK Data: UK government and law every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add uk-government-law --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.uk-government-law]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-government-law": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "uk-government-law": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

govuk
govuk_page
Clean text of a GOV.UK page by path (e.g. /vat-rates). (cost: 1 credit)
govuk_search
Search GOV.UK guidance, news and publications. (cost: 1 credit)
legislation
legislation_search
Search UK legislation by title (legislation.gov.uk). (cost: 1 credit)
legislation_text
Text of an Act or instrument, or one section, from its legislation.gov.uk URL. (cost: 2 credits)
food
food_alerts
Latest Food Standards Agency product recalls and allergy alerts. (cost: 1 credit)
lookup
mp_lookup
Find the MP for a postcode, or search current MPs and peers by name. (cost: 1 credit)
petitions
petitions_search
Search UK Parliament petitions with signature counts and state. (cost: 1 credit)
police
police_neighbourhood
Police force, neighbourhood team and contact details for a point. (cost: 1 credit)

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law streamable-http answering 70 ms 10 min ago

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UK Data: UK government and law — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UK Data: UK government and law do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: food_alerts, govuk_page, govuk_search, legislation_search, legislation_text, mp_lookup and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is UK Data: UK government and law mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around govuk and legislation. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is UK Data: UK government and law working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 107 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect UK Data: UK government and law?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does UK Data: UK government and law need an API key?
No. UK Data: UK government and law completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is UK Data: UK government and law?
It answers our handshake in 107 ms on average, which is faster than 93% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.