• In the category "not a joke": The Settled Status app has been developed in The Netherlands* so em, the UK government couldn't find a local coding shop?

    Maybe a sorta joke after all...

    *not something to be too proud of with some of the small but stupid bugs in it. Other issues are no doubt due to the lack of good user requirements/underfunding and other usuals in app dev.

  • I bet that was much harder than it could have been with a UK company.

    I can well imagine personal or test data is probably quite restricted in this kind of stuff anyway, and they would have had to have also contended with the fact that they were giving it to a company in a (soon to be) undefined trade region :)

  • Unfortunately no, because when you register you have to sign away data protection. It clearly states information will be shared with 3rd parties, and it is not clear who it gets shared with.

    You expect a share with HMRC to look up your info, but it is not clear who else is in the list.

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