Department of Finance Senior Civil Servants Gifts and Hospitality Declarations

OpenDataNI provides records of gifts and hospitality offered to senior civil servants within the UK's Department of Finance. The dataset lists offers for each financial year and indicates whether they were accepted or declined. It was last updated on 2026-04-29 and is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze acceptance rates of gifts and hospitality based on the declared offers.
• Track trends in gift declarations over financial years based on the temporal structure.
• Study potential conflicts of interest within a government department based on the declared items.

Strengths

• Data is structured by financial year, enabling temporal analysis.
• Includes a clear binary indicator for whether an offer was accepted or declined.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal departmental declarations.

Time Range

Covers multiple financial years, but specific range is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 16:00:47.569960; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely focuses on Northern Ireland, given the source.