Leicester City Council Contracts with Living Wage Conditions

Leicester City Council publishes a list of its contracts where a Living Wage condition has been included for suppliers. The data is part of the council's commitment to adopt the Living Wage Foundation's rate within its supply chain. The dataset is aggregated from the eu_open_data platform and is provided by the Government Digital Service.

Use Cases

• Monitor public sector compliance with ethical wage standards based on the published list of compliant contracts.
• Analyze the adoption of Living Wage clauses in local government supply chains based on the commitment described.
• Identify suppliers committed to paying the Living Wage based on the inclusion of supplier names in the data.

Strengths

• Data is published by an accredited Living Wage Employer, Leicester City Council.
• Includes supplier names, providing transparency for contract-level analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Leicester City Council

Collection Method

Published list of contracts as part of a Living Wage commitment.

Time Range

Data collection began after the council's accreditation in September 2015.

Freshness

Last updated is unknown.

Geography

Leicester, United Kingdom.