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<p>Departments and organisations across government work actively and collaboratively
to tackle sites that offer government services for additional charges. These third
party sites commonly operate by offering a call connection or application checking
service. Such sites purport to add additional value to the public users of the sites.</p><p>As
well as ensuring government services are correctly listed and rank highly in search
engine results, limiting the likelihood that the public will encounter misleading
websites, government organisations proactively take steps to have misleading websites
amended or taken down. This is done by contacting the website owners directly, reporting
misleading sites to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and National Trading
Standards (NTS) bodies, and taking legal action.</p><p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>
remains the best place to find government information and services.</p>
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