NIO: Senior Officials' Business Expenses and External Meetings, Q3 2021

July to September 2021 records from the Northern Ireland Office detailing senior officials' business expenses and the permanent secretary's meetings with external organisations. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. It is available in CSV format.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on senior officials' business expenses.
• Map networks of influence based on records of meetings with external organisations.
• Assess compliance with public transparency standards based on disclosed expense categories.
• Conduct temporal analysis of government engagement based on the quarterly reporting period.

Strengths

• Data is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Records are attributed to a specific government department, the Northern Ireland Office.
• Covers a defined three-month period from July to September 2021.

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

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official government records and disclosures.

Time Range

July to September 2021

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Likely focuses on Northern Ireland and the UK.