Planning Inspectorate Monthly GPC Spend Over £250 from August 2012

The Planning Inspectorate's monthly list of Government Procurement Card (GPC) transactions valued at £250 or more, published as part of UK government transparency commitments. The dataset is updated monthly and covers spending from August 2012 onward, with earlier higher-value transactions available in a separate record. The data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Use Cases

• Track departmental spending trends over time based on the monthly update cadence.
• Analyze procurement transparency and policy adherence based on the published transaction list.
• Monitor government expenditure on goods and services based on the GPC spend data.

Strengths

• Monthly update frequency ensures relatively current data.
• Long-term coverage from August 2012 provides a multi-year time series.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 licence for clear reuse rights.

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 uk_data platform, starting from a specific policy date.

Provenance

Source

Planning Inspectorate

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal Government Procurement Card (GPC) transaction records.

Time Range

From August 2012 onward

Freshness

Monthly updates; last metadata update was 2026-07-08.

Geography

United Kingdom