Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government is on track to meet the target of 25 million people using the Verify service by April 2020.

To date, 1.5m people have used GOV.UK Verify to perform 3.7m secure transactions. HMG has committed to rollout Verify across departmental services. To facilitate this, we continue to innovate and improve the GOV.UK Verify service in order to support departments’ transformation plans and the migration of citizen-facing services from Government Gateway.

In addition to continuing with the rollout of GOV.UK Verify across central government, we also continue to explore the wider applications for GOV.UK Verify for secure citizen identity verification in both the wider public and private sectors.

We remain confident that this planned activity enables us to work towards 25m users by 2020.