Verbs
“Good services are verbs, bad services are nouns”
Common verbs used across government services
- Apply (65)
- Find (38)
- Get (33)
- Check (32)
- Register (29)
- Report (21)
- Claim (12)
- Manage (10)
- View (9)
- Pay (8)
- Submit (7)
- Search (6)
- Book (5)
- Create (5)
- File (5)
- Appeal (4)
- Change (3)
- Sign (3)
- Send (3)
- Help (3)
- Use (3)
- Make (3)
- Log (3)
- Plan (3)
- Access (2)
- Renew (2)
- Calculate (2)
- Complain (2)
- Driver (2)
- Estimate (2)
- Ask (2)
- Explore (2)
- National (2)
- Order (2)
- Request (2)
- Moj (2)
- Prove (2)
- Publish (2)
- Replace (2)
- Reply (2)
- Support (2)
- Update (2)
Apply
- Apply for a breathing space (debt respite scheme)
- Apply for a Budgeting Loan
- Apply for a company digital tachograph card
- Apply for a deceased person's military record Top 75
- Apply for a divorce
- Apply for a driver digital tachograph card Top 75
- Apply for a duplicate log book (V5C)
- Apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate
- Apply for a grant GOV.UK One Login
- Apply for a Green Homes Grant retired
- Apply for a Kickstart Scheme Grant for Employers retired
- Apply for a loan to help you return to the UK if you've been unable to travel because of coronavirus
- Apply for a National Insurance number
- Apply for a passport Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Apply for a plug-in vehicle grant
- Apply for a postal vote
- Apply for a proxy vote
- Apply for a public appointment
- Apply for a refugee integration loan
- Apply for a Skilled Worker visa Top 75
- Apply for a Standard Visitor visa Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Apply for a Student visa Top 75
- Apply for a trade remedies investigation
- Apply for an Access to Work Grant Top 75
- Apply for an emergency driving test if you’re a critical worker retired
- Apply for an emergency travel document
- Apply for an environmental permit
- Apply for an HM Armed Forces Veteran Card GOV.UK One Login
- Apply for an International Road Haulage Permit
- Apply for Attendance Allowance Top 75
- Apply for bankruptcy
- Apply for Bereavement Support Payment Top 75
- Apply for British citizenship as a person of Chagossian descent
- Apply for Carer’s Allowance Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Apply for energy bill support retired
- Apply for EU settled status Top 75
- Apply for fluorinated gas (F gas) quota
- Apply for innovation funding
- Apply for legal aid Top 75
- Apply for Marriage Allowance
- Apply for New Style Employment and Support Allowance (New Style ESA) Top 75
- Apply for New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance Top 75
- Apply for or renew a Blue Badge
- Apply for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) import and export licence
- Apply for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) quota
- Apply for Pension Credit Top 75
- Apply for Personal Independence Payment Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Apply for photo ID to vote (called a ‘Voter Authority Certificate’) Top 75
- Apply for plant export certificates and inspections
- Apply for Probate
- Apply for qualified teacher status (QTS) in England GOV.UK One Login
- Apply for support for alternative fuels retired
- Apply for teacher training GOV.UK One Login
- Apply for the Civil Service Fast Stream retired
- Apply for the Workplace Charging Scheme
- Apply for your first provisional driving licence Top 75
- Apply for your immigration health surcharge reimbursement as a student
- Apply online for student finance Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Apply to be temporarily recognised as a transport manager for vans
- Apply to become an Academy
- Apply to close a Tax tribunal enquiry
- Apply to join the Childcare Register
- Apply to register a design
- Apply to register your nursery or other daycare organisation
- Apply to strike off and dissolve a company
Find
- Find a coronavirus (COVID-19) travel test provider retired
- Find a Court or Tribunal
- Find a DfE-approved framework for your school
- Find a grant GOV.UK One Login
- Find a job
- Find a learning aim
- Find a legal aid adviser or family mediator
- Find a lost teacher reference number (TRN)
- Find a National Infrastructure Project
- Find a registered design
- Find a regulated awarding organisation
- Find a regulated qualification
- Find a solution for your employment dispute
- Find a teaching school hub
- Find a Tender
- Find a test centre for an HGV, bus or trailer MOT
- Find a traineeship
- Find a will
- Find an apprenticeship Original 25 exemplars GOV.UK One Login
- Find an end-point assessment organisation for your apprentice
- Find an energy certificate
- Find an inspection report
- Find and Use an API GOV.UK One Login
- Find apprenticeship training for your apprentice
- Find bus open data
- Find energy improvements suitable for your home
- Find lorry and bus operators
- Find open data
- Find out what support you can get if you’re affected by coronavirus retired
- Find pension contact details
- Find registered local bus services
- Find schemes for your business
- Find school and college performance data in England Top 75
- Find support for your family retired
- Find teacher training courses
- Find unclaimed court money
- Find your business rates valuation
- Find your pension centre
Get
- Get a coronavirus test retired
- Get a goods movement reference
- Get a guarantee for export finance
- Get a new energy certificate
- Get a passport urgently
- Get a passport urgently
- Get a PCR test to check if you have COVID-19 retired
- Get a prescription prepayment certificate
- Get a rod fishing licence Top 75
- Get access to your online immigration status (eVisa)
- Get an adviser
- Get an EORI number
- Get an export health certificate Top 75
- Get an international relocation payment
- Get help arranging child maintenance
- Get help buying for schools
- Get help paying court and tribunal fees
- Get help to retrain retired
- Get help with child arrangements
- Get help with Education and Skills Funding Agency services
- Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment) Top 75
- Get help with savings if you’re on a low income (Help to Save)
- Get help with technology retired
- Get help with the cost of prison visits
- Get information about a company
- Get information about pupils
- Get information about schools Top 75
- Get Into Teaching Top 75
- Get or manage MOT reminders
- Get school experience
- Get support if you’re clinically extremely vulnerable to coronavirus retired
- Get your document legalised
- Get your State Pension Top 75
Check
- Check a driving licence
- Check a passport for travel to Europe retired
- Check a pension scheme member's residency status for relief at source
- Check a UK VAT number
- Check an EORI number
- Check an HGV is ready to cross the border retired
- Check and challenge your Council Tax band
- Check duties and customs procedures for exporting goods
- Check for flooding
- Check how to import or export goods
- Check if a Heat Pump is Suitable for Your Home
- Check if a vehicle is taxed and has an MOT
- Check if a vehicle, part or accessory has been recalled
- Check if an alcohol wholesaler or producer is approved
- Check if an animal medicine is licensed
- Check if you are eligible for the Green Homes Grant retired
- Check if you can get legal aid Top 75
- Check if you need an Academic Technology Approval Scheme certificate
- Check if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK
- Check if you need to pay a tariff on goods brought into Northern Ireland from Great Britain
- Check if your client qualifies for legal aid
- Check if your vehicle can run on E10 petrol
- Check International Trade Barriers
- Check MOT history
- Check or update your company car tax Original 25 exemplars
- Check someone’s immigration status
- Check the quality of beach and bathing water in England
- Check the register of fair rents
- Check UK trade tariffs from 1 January 2021 retired
- Check your long term flood risk Top 75
- Check your National Insurance record
- Check your State Pension forecast
Register
- Register a birth abroad
- Register a boat
- Register a death abroad
- Register a flood risk activity exemption
- Register a property as a short term let
- Register a UK 406 MHz beacon
- Register a vehicle Original 25 exemplars
- Register an overseas entity
- Register as a childminder
- Register as a nanny
- Register as a waste carrier Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Register for a fluorinated gas (F gas) account
- Register for a National Professional Qualification
- Register for alerts about careers in international organisations
- Register for gambling tax
- Register for the Soft Drinks Industry Levy
- Register land for off-site biodiversity gain
- Register of apprenticeship training providers service
- Register or renew your money laundering supervision with HMRC
- Register to Apply for US Global Entry
- Register to order free rapid lateral flow coronavirus tests for your employees retired
- Register to use a drone or model aircraft
- Register to vote Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Register trainee teachers
- Register with a GP Practice
- Register your charity’s details with HMRC
- Register your company
- Register your trailer to take it abroad
- Register your waste exemptions
Report
- Report a business behaving unfairly during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak retired
- Report a change to Carer's Allowance
- Report a COVID-19 test result retired
- Report a discrepancy about a beneficial owner on the PSC register
- Report a serious childcare incident
- Report a smell at Walleys Quarry
- Report a smoky lorry or bus
- Report an error with your eVisa
- Report an immigration or customs crime
- Report benefit fraud
- Report changes to registered people in your nursery or other daycare
- Report dead wild birds
- Report Extremism in Education
- Report landfill data
- Report modern slavery
- Report online material promoting terrorism or extremism
- Report packaging data
- Report wreck material
- Report your fluorinated gas (F gas) activities
- Report your Official Development Assistance
- Report your salmon or sea trout catch
Claim
- Claim a power of attorney refund retired
- Claim Additional Payments for Teaching GOV.UK One Login
- Claim Child Benefit Top 75
- Claim compensation for a miscarriage of justice
- Claim Disability Living Allowance For A Child Top 75
- Claim for crown court defence
- Claim for loss of notice pay
- Claim for redundancy and monies owed Original 25 exemplars
- Claim Gift Aid online
- Claim grant for Workplace Charging Scheme
- Claim Maternity Allowance Top 75
- Claim tax relief for expenses of employment
Manage
- Manage a registered pension scheme
- Manage apprenticeships Top 75
- Manage family support services and accounts GOV.UK One Login retired
- Manage permissions for tax software
- Manage training for early career teachers
- Manage your student loan balance Top 75
- Manage your transit movements
- Manage your VAT account
- Manage your vehicle testing
- Manage your water abstraction or impoundment licence
View
- View a job applicant's right to work
- View a lasting power of attorney
- View a tenant's right to rent in England
- View designs journal
- View or prove your immigration status
- View the orphan works register
- View vehicle record
- View your driving licence information Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- View your education data
Pay
- Pay a DVLA fine
- Pay a DVSA roadside fine
- Pay a late filing penalty
- Pay a tax penalty
- Pay the Dartford Crossing charge (Dart Charge)
- Pay your childcare or social care invoice
- Pay your court fine or maintenance order
- Pay your tax Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
Submit
- Submit a General Aviation Report (GAR)
- Submit a proposal for flood and coastal erosion risk management project funding
- Submit an employment intermediary report
- Submit and update your planning data
- Submit cosmetic product notifications
- Submit learner data
- Submit social housing lettings and sales data (CORE)
Search
- Search for intellectual property
- Search for local land charges
- Search for property information from HM Land Registry Original 25 exemplars
- Search published payment practice reports
- Search the Armed Forces Memorial Roll of Honour
- Search the charity register
Book
- Book a theory test
- Book and manage theory tests for your pupils
- Book consular appointments
- Book or manage your coronavirus vaccination
- Book your driving test
Create
- Create a bathing water sign
- Create a coronavirus NHS QR code for your venue retired
- Create a UK catch certificate Top 75
- Create an energy label
- Create fares data
File
- File a confirmation statement
- File a notice of threatened opposition
- File A Statement Of Capital Data
- File your accounts and Company Tax Return
- File your company accounts
Appeal
- Appeal a benefit decision
- Appeal a planning decision
- Appeal against a tax decision
- Appeal an immigration or asylum decision
Change
- Change the address on your vehicle log book (V5C)
- Change your address or your legal representative's details
- Change your driving test
Sign
- Sign in to the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) online service
- Sign up for flood warnings
- Sign your mortgage deed GOV.UK One Login
Send
- Send legal mail to prisons
- Send money to someone in prison Top 75
- Send your fit note for your ESA claim
Help
Use
- Use a lasting power of attorney GOV.UK One Login
- Use land and property data
- Use the Employer Checking Service
Make
- Make a lasting power of attorney Top 75 Original 25 exemplars
- Make a plea for a traffic offence
- Make a SORN
Log
- Log in and file your Stamp Duty Land Tax return
- Log in to use the Notification of Vehicle Arrivals (NOVA) service
- Log test site COVID-19 results
Plan
Access
Renew
- Renew a patent, trade mark or registered design Original 25 exemplars
- Renew your driving licence