Leicester City Council Expenditure Over £500

Leicester City Council publishes monthly records of individual expenditure items exceeding £500, as mandated by Local Government Association guidance. The dataset includes invoices, grant payments, payments for goods and services, rent, credit notes, and transactions with other public bodies. Data is redacted for personal data, commercial confidentiality, or security concerns.

Use Cases

• Tracking public spending on goods and services based on invoice-level data.
• Analyzing grant distribution and financial aid based on grant payment records.
• Monitoring financial transactions between public bodies based on transaction records.
• Auditing compliance with transparency regulations based on expenditure reporting guidelines.

Strengths

• Covers multiple fiscal years, with explicit mentions of data for 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.
• Updated monthly, suggesting relatively current records.
• Published by a specific local government authority (Leicester City Council), providing a clear source.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as column names, row counts, file sizes, and license information is missing from all platform entries.
• Data is redacted for confidentiality and security, which limits the completeness of individual records.
• The exact temporal coverage for some entries is ambiguous, as descriptions refer to 'the year' without a specific year.

Provenance

Source

Leicester City Council

Collection Method

Collected as part of the council's mandatory publication of expenditure over £500, following Local Government Association guidance.

Time Range

Covers at least the years 2022 through 2026, based on individual dataset titles.

Freshness

Last updated dates on the platform are from 2026-06-17, but these appear to be metadata timestamps rather than data content dates.

Geography

Leicester, United Kingdom.