UK Pensions Regulator Expenditure Over £25,000, 2011-12 Onwards

Spend over £25,000 in The Pensions Regulator as from 2011/12. Reports for 2010/11 were for spend over £500. The data is published by The Pensions Regulator under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in high-value government procurement based on the reported spending threshold.
• Identify major suppliers and expenditure categories for a UK regulatory body based on the transaction descriptions.
• Benchmark public sector spending efficiency based on the longitudinal data starting from 2011/12.
• Study the impact of reporting threshold changes based on the shift from £500 to £25,000.

Strengths

• Provides a longitudinal record of high-value transactions starting from the 2011/12 financial year.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating reuse.
• Data is sourced directly from the authoritative UK regulator for pensions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

The Pensions Regulator

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal financial systems for transparency reporting.

Time Range

2011/12 onwards (with 2010/11 reports under a different threshold).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:13.465179; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom