Surrey County Council Supplier Payments Over £500, 2014 Onwards

Surrey County Council publishes monthly reports of individual payments to suppliers exceeding £500, with the threshold lowered to £250 from 2014. This data is released under the Transparency Code 2014 as part of the council's commitment to public transparency. The dataset is available in CSV, HTML, and RDF formats with an OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in local government spending based on monthly payment reports.
• Monitoring supplier relationships and expenditure patterns for payments over £500.
• Assessing the impact of transparency policies on public financial data publication.

Strengths

• Data is published under the UK Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0), enabling reuse.
• Reports are published monthly, suggesting a regular update schedule.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV, HTML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Surrey County Council

Collection Method

Publication of official expenditure records.

Time Range

Monthly reports, with data from at least 2014 onwards.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:48.683877; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Surrey County, United Kingdom