UK software change file / source registerChecked 30 July 2026

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Start with the authority. Record the decision separately.

These links help a UK organisation identify questions for its commissioning file. Guidance changes, scope matters and the organisation remains responsible for confirming the current requirements that apply.

Department for Business and Trade: technology adoption among UK SMEs

Research on adoption stages, barriers and information gaps. Use it to challenge assumptions about readiness, not to claim demand or predict results.

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Information Commissioner's Office: controllers and processors

A starting point for identifying who determines purpose and means and who processes personal information on another party's behalf.

Open ICO guidance

Information Commissioner's Office: international transfers

Use the guide when remote access, hosting or sub-processors may involve restricted transfers. Confirm the actual data path and current mechanism.

Open ICO guidance

National Cyber Security Centre: developers collection

Guidance spanning secure design, development and operation. Convert relevant principles into owned, observable delivery controls.

Open NCSC guidance

GOV.UK: Software Security Code of Practice

A voluntary code for software vendors. It can help frame supplier questions but does not make this page or Faith Forge Labs a certification body.

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HM Revenue & Customs: VAT place of supply of services

Official notice covering place-of-supply concepts. The organisation or adviser must determine the treatment for its facts before rules are implemented.

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GOV.UK: accessibility requirements for public-sector websites and apps

A starting point for public-sector scope and duties. Other organisations may have different legal or contractual requirements.

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Source discipline: record the page consulted, access date, applicable fact, decision owner and resulting requirement. A link alone is not a compliance decision.

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