UK Data: UK government and law
REMOTE · UKDATA.RELINESS.CO.UK
UK legislation full text, MPs, petitions, GOV.UK search, food alerts, police neighbourhoods
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Last scanned (2 hours ago)
Scores higher than 53% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
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How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security69
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability68
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 443 tokens (~55/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management3
- Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +9
- Authorization: unverified → partial ▲ security
- HSTS header: fail → pass ▲ security
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- “legislation_search” added an optional parameter “includeEu” cosmetic
- 4 Nov 26 59
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=reliness.co.uk | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 4 Nov 2026 | 2 Feb 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | f1d4f4e9f24c919b0e13c306162294a4 |
| SANs: reliness.co.uk, ukdata.reliness.co.uk, *.ukdata.reliness.co.uk | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of ukdata.reliness.co.uk. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| uk. | present | 43876 | 8 | Verified |
| co.uk. | present | 11810 | 8 | Verified |
| reliness.co.uk. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains |
| x-content-type-options | nosniff |
| referrer-policy | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law | Served over HTTP | 200 |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
food_alerts ~39
Latest Food Standards Agency product recalls and allergy alerts. (cost: 1 credit)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | number|string | – | number 1-100 |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
govuk_page ~55
Clean text of a GOV.UK page by path (e.g. /vat-rates). (cost: 1 credit)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| maxChars | number|string | – | number |
| path | string | – | string, required |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
govuk_search ~49
Search GOV.UK guidance, news and publications. (cost: 1 credit)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | number|string | – | number 1-50 |
| query | string | – | string, required |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
legislation_search ~68
Search UK legislation by title (legislation.gov.uk). (cost: 1 credit)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| includeEu | boolean|string | – | boolean, default false: also search EU retained law |
| limit | number|string | – | number 1-50 |
| query | string | – | string, required |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
legislation_text ~66
Text of an Act or instrument, or one section, from its legislation.gov.uk URL. (cost: 2 credits)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| maxChars | number|string | – | number |
| section | string | – | string e.g. 3 |
| url | string | – | string, required |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
mp_lookup ~56
Find the MP for a postcode, or search current MPs and peers by name. (cost: 1 credit)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | number|string | – | number |
| name | string | – | string |
| postcode | string | – | string |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
petitions_search ~59
Search UK Parliament petitions with signature counts and state. (cost: 1 credit)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | number|string | – | number |
| query | string | – | string, required |
| state | string | – | open|closed|rejected|all |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
police_neighbourhood ~51
Police force, neighbourhood team and contact details for a point. (cost: 1 credit)
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| latitude | number|string | – | number, required |
| longitude | number|string | – | number, required |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the UK Data: UK government and law MCP server?
UK Data: UK government and law is a hosted endpoint at https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · ukdata.reliness.co.uk
claude mcp add --transport http uk-co-reliness-uk-government-law 'https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law'
What is the UK Data: UK government and law MCP server?
UK Data: UK government and law is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as uk.co.reliness/uk-government-law. UK legislation full text, MPs, petitions, GOV.UK search, food alerts, police neighbourhoods. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-government-law).
Is the UK Data: UK government and law MCP server safe to use?
UK Data: UK government and law scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the UK Data: UK government and law MCP server expose?
UK Data: UK government and law exposes 8 tools: legislation_search, legislation_text, mp_lookup, petitions_search, govuk_search, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 443 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the UK Data: UK government and law MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to UK Data: UK government and law without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the UK Data: UK government and law MCP server still maintained?
UK Data: UK government and law is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.