UK Department for Education Procurement Card Spend Over £500, Monthly Updated

Monthly-updated records of Government Procurement Card (GPC) and electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS) transactions over £500 made by the UK Department for Education. The dataset is published by the Department for Education as part of the UK government's transparency commitment and was last updated on 2026-07 08.

Use Cases

• Analyzing departmental spending trends based on the monthly-updated transaction list.
• Monitoring compliance with government transparency commitments based on the published expenditure data.
• Identifying high-frequency vendors or procurement categories based on the spend-over-£500 threshold.

Strengths

• Data is updated monthly, providing regular refresh cycles.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, allowing for reuse.
• Part of a formal government transparency commitment, suggesting institutional backing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Department for Education

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal government procurement card systems.

Time Range

Monthly updated; specific temporal coverage is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:17.088129; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom, specifically Department for Education activities.