Audit Commission Expense Claims Over £500 for 2010-2013 Financial Years

Expense claims over £500 from the UK's Audit Commission for the 2010/11, 2011/12, and 2012/13 financial years. The data was published in support of the Government's transparency agenda. The dataset is provided in CSV format under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing public sector spending patterns based on published expense claims.
• Monitoring compliance with government transparency agendas based on expense disclosure.
• Investigating trends in high-value expense claims within a public body over a multi-year period.

Strengths

• Covers three consecutive financial years (2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13).
• Focuses on high-value transactions with a clear threshold of £500 per claim.
• Published by a named public organization (Audit Commission) with a stated commitment to transparency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the specified three-year period.

Provenance

Source

Audit Commission

Collection Method

Published expense claims from the organization.

Time Range

2010/11, 2011/12, and 2012/13 financial years.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:23.151384; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (implied by the Audit Commission's remit).