The Stationery Office

The Stationery Office Ltd
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryPublishing
PredecessorHis Majesty's Stationery Office
Founded1996
HeadquartersLondon, England, UK
ParentWilliams Lea Tag
Websitewww.tso.co.uk

The Stationery Office (TSO) is a British publishing company created in 1996 when the publishing arm of His Majesty's Stationery Office was privatised.[1] It is the official publisher and the distributor for legislation, command and house papers, select committee reports, Hansard, and the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, the UK government's three official journals of record.[2] With more than 9,000 titles in print and digital formats published every year, it is one of the UK's largest publishers by volume.[3]

TSO provides services, consultancy, and infrastructure to deliver all aspects of the information lifecycle. TSO developed the website legislation.gov.uk with The National Archives, providing full access to the statute book as open data.[4]

The TSO OpenUp platform is a collection of integrated services available as software as a service (SaaS), with the aim of providing a scalable and resilient platform that allows organisations to store, query, and enrich their data.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Harrington, Ben (25 April 2006). "Stationery Office sale may net £100m". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Case Studies | The Gazettes". TSO. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  3. ^ "About TSO: Who Are We?". TSO. Archived from the original on 2 January 2006. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  4. ^ "The National Archives (Legislation)". TSO. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013.