Tunbridge Wells Borough Council High-Value Expenditure

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council publishes records of individual payments exceeding £500 from April 2010 and exceeding £250 from June 2012. The dataset includes payments for goods, services, grants, and expenses, while excluding items like employee remuneration, banking investments, and refunds. Certain payments to private individuals are redacted under Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts.

Use Cases

• Tracking public procurement and supplier payments based on the listed goods and services.
• Analyzing grant distribution to third-party providers based on the grants category.
• Monitoring compliance with the UK government's transparency code for local authority spending.
• Investigating the scale and nature of high-value council expenditures over time.

Strengths

• Provides a long-term record of high-value transactions, with data spanning from April 2010.
• Includes specific exclusions and redaction policies, clarifying the dataset's scope and legal compliance.

Limitations

• Critical metadata such as row count, specific column names, and license information is missing from all sources.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date, with one listing 2026-07-08 (a future date) and another 2020-04-30.
• The dataset's completeness is unclear due to the described exclusions and redactions.

Provenance

Source

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

Collection Method

Published by the council as part of UK government transparency initiatives.

Time Range

April 2010 to present (based on described publication start date)

Freshness

2026-07-08 15:01:55.192244 (Note: This is a future date, indicating a potential metadata error)

Geography

Tunbridge Wells Borough, United Kingdom