Up to 2016, the Government Digital Service was claiming that 25 million people would be signed up to Verify by 2020 – based on current estimates, the real figure will be more like 5.4m.
Easily fixed. Do what the Australian government did when the same situation was facing MyHealth, change the signup from voluntary (opt-in) to compulsory unless you manually, explicitly opt-out. That'll fix the numbers for them (though not the other problems with it).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
