Rushmoor Borough Council Expenditure Over £250, UK Transparency Data

Rushmoor Borough Council publishes its spending on transactions over £250, as mandated by the UK's Transparency Code 2014. The data includes non-recoverable VAT and redacts supplier names for personal or commercially sensitive payments. The dataset is published by Rushmoor Borough Council and was last updated on March 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze local government procurement patterns based on transaction amounts over £250.
• Track public spending transparency and compliance based on the UK Transparency Code 2014 framework.
• Identify categories of commercially sensitive or personal payments based on redacted supplier information.

Strengths

• Data is published under the Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0).
• Specific publication threshold of £250 is documented, with a known historical threshold of £500 before October 2014.
• Includes explicit handling for redacted personal and commercially sensitive data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset follows a custom schema, not the recommended Local Government Association (LGA) schema.

Provenance

Source

Rushmoor Borough Council

Collection Method

Published expenditure data as specified in the UK Transparency Code 2014.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:30:06.776497; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rushmoor, United Kingdom