Leeds City Council publishes statistics on its compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, specifically the obligation to pay valid invoices within 30 days. The dataset includes metrics such as the proportion and percentage of invoices paid on time, total liability amounts, and any interest paid for breaches. The data was last updated on 2021-05-05 and is provided under the Open Government Licence.
Use Cases
- Monitor public sector payment performance based on the reported proportion of invoices paid within 30 days.
- Analyze financial liability and spending patterns based on the total liability and interest paid metrics.
- Benchmark local authority compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 using the published statistics.
Strengths
- Data is published under a specific legal mandate (Public Contracts Regulations 2015, regulation 113(7)), ensuring a clear purpose.
- Includes four distinct, defined metrics (invoicesPaidCount, invoicesPaidPercentage, totalLiability, interestPaid) for analysis.
- Released under the permissive Open Government Licence for reuse.
Limitations
- Last updated 2021-05-05 09:22:46.437000; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Leeds City Council, aggregated via Government Digital Service.
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from internal financial systems for regulatory reporting.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- 2021-05-05
- Geography
- Leeds, United Kingdom