Gifts and Hospitality Register for City of York Council Staff from May 2022

City of York Council's register of gifts and hospitality received by its staff, with records starting from May 2022. The dataset is maintained by the Government Digital Service and is updated biannually in March and September. Publication of recipient names is limited to Senior Officers of grade 12 or higher.

Use Cases

• Monitoring compliance with ethical standards based on the recorded gifts and hospitality.
• Analyzing trends in gift offers to public officials based on the temporal data from May 2022 onwards.
• Studying transparency practices based on the selective publication of senior officer names.

Strengths

• Data is updated on a regular schedule, every March and September.
• Provides a defined temporal coverage starting from a specific date (May 2022).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Official administrative register maintained by City of York Council.

Time Range

From May 2022 onwards

Freshness

Updated every March and September; last update date is unknown.

Geography

City of York, United Kingdom