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UK Central Government Procurement Spend

Spend by the public sector on goods and services taken from the Office of Government Commerce's Public Sector Procurement Expenditure Survey. This is a survey of central government organisations' expenditure and provides £86bn of operational data, on what over 130 Central Government Organisations plus English Local Authorities spend in over 120 common categories of procurement.

Data Resources 2

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XLS
Interactive Excel toolkit allowing navigation (Archived version - April, 2011)
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Word file with source data embedded as Excel and CSV files (Archived version - April, 2011)

Additional Information

Openness score
Reason: Content of file appeared to be format "XLS" which receives openness score: 2.
★★★★★  Linked data - data URIs and linked to other data (e.g. RDF)
★★★★☆  Linkable data - served at URIs (e.g. RDF)
★★★☆☆  Structured data in open format (e.g. CSV)
★★☆☆☆  Structured data but proprietry format (e.g. Excel)
★☆☆☆☆  Unstructured data (e.g. PDF)
Score updated: 13/03/2013
Theme Spending Data
Secondary Theme(s) Finance
Temporal coverage 1/4/2008 - 31/3/2009
Geographic coverage United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
Update frequency Annually (minimum)
Temporal granularity year
Mandate No value
Date added computed No value
Date updated computed No value

Developer Tools

The information on this page (the dataset metadata) is also available in JSON format: /api/2/rest/package/public-sector-procurement-spend

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This dataset has a permanent URI: http://data.gov.uk//dataset/public-sector-procurement-spend