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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

The UK government adopted use of the Open Document Format in 2014. While there are still some barriers to using that open standard, a lot of progress has been made.

The Open Standards team was asked 4 years ago by the Open Standards Board to help government publish documents in a more open, transparent and accessible way. We’ve since made progress in achieving these objectives but we still have more work to do.

This blog focuses on how far we've come in our mission to make Open Document Format (ODF) the default standard for editable documents. ODF is not intended to replace read-only documents like PDFs, so we have not included PDF usage in our statistics below.

Everyone in the UK has the right to read their government's documents. So some additional efforts will be undertaken to expand use of documents using open standards and minimize proprietary, legacy formats.

From Technology at GDS : Open Document Format in government: an update [blog.gov.uk]

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