Register of Special Advisers' Interests for 2020-21

Government Digital Service records of interests declared by UK Special Advisers (SPADs) for the 2020-21 period. The dataset supports transparency and ethical oversight within the UK government. It is available under the Open Government Licence and is hosted on multiple official data platforms.

Use Cases

• Monitoring potential conflicts of interest based on declared financial and non-financial interests.
• Analyzing the scope of external engagements held by government advisers.
• Researching trends in government transparency and ethics compliance over time.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on eu_open_data and uk_data indicates official status and reliability.
• Explicitly covers a defined one-year period (2020-21).
• Released under the permissive Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0).

Limitations

• Column names and the exact number of records are not provided in any source.
• The last update date (2026-07-08) is inconsistent with the dataset's stated 2020-21 time range, suggesting potential metadata issues.
• Descriptions are identical across platforms, offering no additional detail on data structure or content.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Time Range

2020-21

Freshness

2026-07-08 13:33:27.715175

Geography

United Kingdom