VTS Spend Over £250: UK Valuation Tribunal Service Expenditure Records

VTS spend data from the UK's Valuation Tribunal Service. The dataset contains records of expenditures exceeding a threshold, which changed from over £500 to over £250 around the year 2003. It is published by the Valuation Tribunal Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in government procurement and spending based on the monetary threshold mentioned in the description
• Tracking changes in expenditure reporting policies based on the described threshold shift from £500 to £250
• Conducting longitudinal studies of public finance based on the implied time series data

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official Valuation Tribunal Service organization.
• The license (OGL-UK-3.0) is clearly specified, indicating terms of use.

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

Valuation Tribunal Service

Time Range

Spans a period before and after approximately 2003.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:29.232847; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely covers the United Kingdom, given the source platform and organization.