UK Government High-Value Transactions for November 2021

Government spending records detailing individual transactions over £25,000. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service on the EU Open Data platform and is available in CSV format under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The specific temporal coverage appears to be November 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyzing patterns in government procurement and supplier payments (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Training models to categorize public expenditure by department or purpose (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking spending efficiency across different time periods or agencies (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the authoritative EU Open Data platform.
• Available under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Data is provided in the widely compatible CSV format.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The total number of rows and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official government expenditure reports.

Time Range

November 2021

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

United Kingdom (inferred from organization and currency)