The new sign-in tool that will be implemented across departments will be used to support the new verification process for company founders, owners, and directors, the DSIT secretary has announced

Government’s new One Login system has now been implemented across 40 discrete departmental services, with Companies House among the latest agencies to deploy the sign-in tool.

The UK company register has already rolled out One Login to a selection of its online platforms, and it will also be used to support new services delivered by the agency as required under the terms of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, which passed into law last year.

The new legislation requires all founders, owners, or directors of registered businesses to verify their identity upon their appointment, and before filing subsequent information or official documents with Companies House. This process will be achieved by One Login.

The new government-wide sign-in system will be deployed across the rest of the online services offered by Companies House in due course, according to Peter Kyle, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology.

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The minister, delivering a pre-recorded speech at this week’s Digital Government Expo event in London, added that One Login is part of a broader plan to use digital technology to support government’s work.

“Through a modern digital government, we can offer a hopeful, realistic vision of a future where technology makes a meaningful difference to people’s lives,” he said. “At stake is not just a healthier, happier society, but a fairer one, too.  Because bureaucracy often takes time and money away from the people who have the least to give. I see DSIT as a partner and a standard bearer for any department that is harnessing the power of technology to improve people’s lives and life chances in Britain. Whether that means teachers using AI to design lesson plans that help every child achieve their potential or doctors using the technology to detect diseases invisible to the human eye.”

One Login’s rollout has passed 40 services about six months after hitting the 30 mark. The aim is for the tool to be implemented ubiquitously across all government agencies and hundreds of individual services. In doing so, it will replace a previous patchwork of almost 200 separate accounts systems and 44 separate sign-in methods. All departments have been instructed to at least begin implementing One Login within the next six months.

A major piece of “user segmentation” research recently published by the Government Digital Service, which developed the sign-in tool, revealed that “a small but significant margin of users” currently struggle to verify their identity.