UK Crown Prosecution Service Exceptions to Government Spending Moratoria

A list of spending items permitted by the Crown Prosecution Service after five cross-government moratoria were announced on 24 May 2010. The dataset covers exceptions for ICT spend above £1 million, advertising and marketing, consultancy, property leases and extensions, and civil service recruitment. It is published by the Crown Prosecution Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 8 July 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze patterns in approved exceptions based on the five moratoria categories mentioned in the description.
• Monitor government spending compliance based on the list of allowed expenditures.
• Study public sector procurement priorities based on the types of spending permitted.
• Track temporal trends in spending approvals based on the dataset's coverage from May 2010.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific policy event with a clear start date of 24 May 2010.
• Covers five distinct spending categories as defined by the cross-government moratoria.
• Published by the authoritative source, the Crown Prosecution Service.
• Has a specific last update timestamp of 2026-07-08 13:33:17.246141.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Crown Prosecution Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal records of approved spending exceptions.

Time Range

From 24 May 2010 onward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:17.246141; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom