GOV.UK: Verify is the UK govenment replacement to the current government gateway ID solution. The GDS (Government Digital Services) as due to release the framework 2 at the end of November 2014 for bidders to apply to become Identity providers.
The attached documents are a list of the attendee from the market briefing event held in London on October 30th 2014 and also a simple summary presentation of the event an what the new VERIFY solution is