{"id":17405,"date":"2025-01-21T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/digital-passports-among-ids-to-be-available-in-uk-government-app\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:38:24","slug":"digital-passports-among-ids-to-be-available-in-uk-government-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/digital-passports-among-ids-to-be-available-in-uk-government-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital passports among IDs to be available in UK government app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The app announced by Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for technology, will launch in June with driving licences and veteran cards the first available IDs<\/p>\n<p>UK citizens could soon be able to carry their passports in a digital wallet on their phones along with their driving licence, universal credit account and marriage and birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was announced by Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, as part of a new smartphone app to simplify interactions with government services. He said it meant \u201cthe overflowing drawer rammed with letters from the government and hours spent on hold to get a basic appointment will soon be consigned to history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/21\/digital-passports-among-ids-to-be-available-in-uk-government-app\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fdc54dbc90ce493496a90dcf2488daabeffa7cdf\/891_555_3290_1974\/master\/3290.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1600d376d8734bf36b56b753af90adcb\" title=\"Digital passports among IDs to be available in UK government app\" \/>The app announced by Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for technology, will launch in June with driving licences and veteran cards the first available IDs<br \/>\nUK citizens could soon be able to carry their passports in a digital wallet on their phones along with their driving licence, universal credit account and marriage and birth certificates.<br \/>\nThe plan was announced by Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, as part of a new smartphone app to simplify interactions with government services. He said it meant \u201cthe overflowing drawer rammed with letters from the government and hours spent on hold to get a basic appointment will soon be consigned to history\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The app announced by Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for technology, will launch in June with driving licences and veteran cards the first available IDs UK citizens could soon be able to carry their passports in a digital wallet on their phones along with their driving licence, universal credit account and marriage and birth &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/digital-passports-among-ids-to-be-available-in-uk-government-app\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital passports among IDs to be available in UK government app<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}