Monthly-updated records of all financial payments exceeding £25,000 made by Registers of Scotland. The data is published by Registers of Scotland as part of the UK Government's commitment to expenditure transparency. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-17.
Use Cases
- Monitor government spending patterns based on monthly high-value payment records
- Analyze financial transparency compliance based on published expenditure data
- Track organizational expenditure over time based on monthly updates
Strengths
- Data is updated monthly, providing regular insights
- Focuses on high-value transactions over £25,000
- Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license for open use
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is 2026-03-17
Provenance
- Source
- Registers of Scotland
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from internal financial systems as part of transparency reporting.
- Freshness
- Monthly updates
- Geography
- Scotland, United Kingdom