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Local government spending
Transaction-level records of money leaving a local authority, usually published above a threshold and usually monthly. The obligation is common across countries; the column layout almost never is.
2 of ~400 principal authorities in England, plus 31 in Ireland catalogued. This family is fragmented — the 2 below are a sample, not coverage.
Who asks for this
Local government finance journalist; supplier pricing a council territory
What it answers
Answers "who is this council actually paying, and for what" — a question asked by local journalists, suppliers sizing a territory, and procurement teams benchmarking prices.
| Record class | Spending / contract spending_contract |
|---|---|
| Sector | Public finance GOVE>public-finance |
| Already served by | not yet checked |
Typical fields
- date
- supplier
- amount
- department
- expense type
- transaction reference
Catalogued instances (2)
| Dataset | Jurisdiction | Class | Access | Licence | Status | Req. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland local authority purchase orders | Ireland | Spending / contract | mixed | unverified | requested | |
| UK local authority spend over £25,000 | United Kingdom | Spending / contract | csv | unverified | requested |
Each instance is a separate publisher with its own licence. We never infer a licence from the family, the publisher or the country — the Environment Agency publishes one dataset under the Open Government Licence and another marked all rights reserved.