Ask for changes to topics
Most Whitehall content needs to be tagged to a topic before it can be published.
If there’s no topic that describes what your content is about, you can ask the Government Digital Service (GDS) to create a new topic.
You can also suggest changes to an existing topic.
You need a Signon account to make these requests. Speak to your GOV.UK lead or one of your organisation admins if you want an account.
Your GOV.UK lead and organisation admins will typically be in your organisation’s GOV.UK content, digital content, publishing or digital communications team.
Add a new topic
Use the new topic request form to make your request.
You need to include:
- evidence of why a new topic should be created, if you have any
- where you think the new topic should sit within the topic taxonomy – for example, if you think it should be a subtopic of an existing topic
- examples of pages you think should be tagged to the new topic
Suggest changes to an existing topic
Use the suggest topic changes request form if you want to:
- rename a topic
- remove a topic
- reposition a topic in the topic taxonomy – for example, move it up a level
- merge with another topic
- split a topic into multiple topics