Investigate Government Services

I have researched a local and national service that can be undertaken in the UK. I will be viewing Fareham Borough Council as a local government and Labour as a National Government.

Information Services
On Fareham Borough Council website, you can view about the council, local area, community, buisness and economy and council services. In the council servcies, there is an A-Z list of different services that fareham bourogh council provide and do. These include recycling, commercial waste and transportation. If you have access to the internet, you can easily view the different services that Fareham Borough Council provide for the community.

On the Labour website, you can sign up to the website and read through the policies and start campaigns. Same as Fareham Borough Council website, you can view the different services that Labour provides. There is a less comples view of this at the bottem of the page. This includes asylum and immigration, transport and schools. Because this information is provided online, there is less need to print out leaflets or flyers which cost money and waste paper. If you have access to the internet you can view relevant information.

Online Reporting and Advice
On the Fareham Borough Council website, you can go into the community section where different support is provided for people under the "people" section. Then, it is split up into different sections so you can narrow down and find what section suits you best. This also saves money and paper as all the information that could be on a leaflet is posted online.

Online Payments
On the Fareham Borough Council website, you are given a range of options in which to pay your council tax, housing rent, parking penalties and other payments. There is also an option to pay online where you can pay 24 hours a day 7 days a week. This saves money as people can pay online rather than other ways. This means they don't have to pay people to be in call centers to work for them thus saving the governments money.

On the Labour website, you can donate to Labour very easily as part of signing up. They make this easy to do as they will want to encourage people to donate. There are also other options where you can start fundraising and start campaigns to raise money for labour.


According to a Cabinet office report in 2004, the UK Government hopes to have saved £1.3 Million within three years by migtrating its services online and to have saved consumers £1 thousand million. This is possible as they can post their information online. This means they do not have to spend money on paying people to work in call centers. Also, it is cheaper to use a debit card as the bank isn't charged thus saving money again. Because the information is online, there is less demand for leaflets and flyers which cost alot of money to produce and aren't eco-friendly.

URL: http://www.fareham.gov.uk
URL: http://www.labour.org.uk
URL: http://www.directgov.org