What we spend and how we spend it
Financial information relating to projected and actual income
and expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit
Financial statements, budgets and variance reports: Financial
information in sufficient detail to allow the public to see where
money is being spent, where it is or has been planned to spend it
and the difference between one and the other. Annual, and where
practicable shorter timescales, should be used ie half yearly or
quarterly. We would expect revenue budgets and budgets for capital
expenditure to be included:
Capital programme:
Information should be made available on major plans for capital
expenditure including any public private partnership contracts:
Financial audit reports:
Staff and board members’ allowances and
expenses: Details of the allowances and expenses that can
be claimed. It should include the total of the allowances and
expenses, by reference to categories, paid to individual members of
senior staff and management board members produced in line with the
NDPB’s policies. Categories will be such headings as travel,
subsistence, accommodation.
Pay and grading structures: This may be
provided as part of the organisational structure and should
indicate, for most posts, levels of pay rather than individual
salaries:
Cabinet Office disclosure requirements:
2011
2010
Procurement transparency
The government has set out the need for greater transparency
across its operations to enable the public to hold public bodies
and politicians to account. This includes commitments relating to
public expenditure, intended to help achieve better value for
money. As part of the transparency agenda, government has made the
following commitments with regard to procurement and
contracting:
- All new central government ICT contracts over the value of
£10,000 to be published in full online from July 2010
- All new central government tender documents for contracts over
£10,000 to be published on a single website from September 2010,
with this information to be made available to the public free of
charge
- New items of central government spending over £25,000 to be
published online from November 2010
- All new central government contracts to be published in full
from January 2011.
Suppliers and those organisations looking to bid for public
sector contracts should be aware that if they are awarded a new
government contract, the resulting contract between the supplier
and government will be published. In some circumstances, limited
redactions will be made to some contracts before they are published
in order to comply with existing law and for the protection of
national security.
Contract finder
Internal financial
regulations: