London Fire Brigade Payments Over £250 for 2022/23

2022/23 (April 2022 to March 2023) payments over £250 made by the London Fire Brigade, published under the government and Mayor of London's transparency agenda. The data includes ProClass merchant categories for most suppliers and contractors. It is published by the Greater London Authority.

Use Cases

• Analyze public spending patterns based on payment amounts and dates mentioned in the description.
• Categorize supplier types based on the ProClass merchant category data included.
• Assess VAT recovery practices in public procurement based on the statement that all VAT is recoverable.
• Track annual expenditure trends by comparing this 2022/23 data with linked historical datasets.

Strengths

• Covers a full fiscal year from April 2022 to March 2023.
• Includes ProClass merchant categories for supplier classification.
• Part of a multi-year series with data back to 2016/17 and earlier.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• A small number of payments may not have a merchant category.

Provenance

Source

Greater London Authority

Collection Method

Published as part of the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requirements.

Time Range

April 2022 to March 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-24 21:04:54.694125; freshness should be verified.

Geography

London, United Kingdom