Publication of Expenditure

We are now publishing information about all our expenditure over £250. Each quarter we will publish the data for the previous 3 months. You can download a pdf document containing this information using the links below.

We want this information to be useful to you and it is freely available under the terms recommended by Central Government to ensure our data is open and transparent.

What is not included?

The files contain details of all expenditure during each month with a value of £250 or more (excluding VAT). All personal details have been removed and any payments of a personal nature will not be included. Examples of excluded payments are:

• Salary Payments to Staff (except some senior staff whose information will be published separately)
• Pension and National Insurance contributions
• Severance Payments
• Payments to Individuals from Legal processes
• Competition prizes
• Settlements made with companies as an arbitration which is conditional on confidentiality
• Transactions relating to the financing or underwriting of debt
• Provisions or promises to pay not yet realised

Making sense of the information

There are four columns in the files you can download:

• Date – the date the payment was made
• Supplier – the supplier name
• Description of the expenditure
• Purpose of the expenditure
• Amount

Expenditure details

Financial Year 2018/19

Financial Year 2017/18

Financial Year 2016/17

Financial Year 2015/16

Financial Year 2014/15

For details before the months shown here, please visit our historic expenditure page.

Further Information

To ask any questions about the published data please contact us. All requests will be treated as freedom of information requests.