Northern Ireland Executive Office Spending Over £25,000 for Q1 2020

Northern Ireland Executive Office financial transactions exceeding £25,000 from January to March 2020. The data was published by the Government Digital Service as part of the Northern Ireland Civil Service commitment to expenditure transparency. It is available under the Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Analyze departmental expenditure patterns based on high-value transaction data.
• Monitor government spending transparency initiatives based on published financial records.
• Conduct fiscal oversight and accountability research based on quarterly spending disclosures.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly tied to a transparency initiative (NICS commitment).
• Transactions have a defined monetary threshold (over £25,000).
• Covers a specific, recent quarterly period (January-March 2020).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely published as part of routine government financial reporting.

Time Range

January 2020 - March 2020

Freshness

Data covers Q1 2020; last platform update date is unknown.

Geography

Northern Ireland (implied by The Executive Office of Northern Ireland)