BIOLAP: Council Expenses Dashboard

Although some Councils have already started to publish details of payments to suppliers over £500, there is obviously a reticense to develop costly reporting solutions. Councils therefore appear to publish the information in downloadable format either as Excel spreadsheets or PDF documents. Although this may 'tick' the required disclosure requirements, we do not believe that this provides real value to the public. Information such as this only has real value if it can be viewed in context (i.e. is a payment normal or abnormal). For a user to be able to make this interpretation, they may need to be able to look at spend in a month for a particular expense category against similar spend in previous periods or against other categories. BIOLAP has developed an application, driven by arcplan technology, that we provide to Councils free of charge to allow members of the public to analyse expenditure, slice and dice information and drill through to the underlying transactions. Please try out our new Council Expenses Dashboard at - http://www.biolap.co.uk/index.php/councilexpenses.html