How to publish monthly payment card data over £500
Template for GOV.UK publication page for departmental core transparency data, to be published monthly.
Prepare the data
Crown Commercial Service provides guidance on how to prepare your data - including timing and appropriate approval processes.
Publish the data
Create a new GOV.UK publication page for each data release.
Publication page template
The publication title, summary, detail and file name is a government standard and must not be changed.
Publication type: Transparency data
Title: [Department name or acronym]: spending over £500, [month year]
Summary: Spending by electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS), over £500.
Body:
[Department name] publishes details of all spending over £500 using an electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS) on a monthly basis. The ePCS has replaced the government procurement card (GPC).
This data is also available on data.gov.uk:
- [add bulleted links to the data.gov.uk pages this data also appears on]
*[ePCS]: electronic purchasing card solution
*[GPCs]: government procurement cards
*[GPC]: government procurement card
Associations
Policies: Government transparency and accountability
Policy areas: Government efficiency, transparency and accountability
CSV attachment titles:
- [Department]’s ePCS spending over £500 for [month year]
Add a link on data.gov.uk
When the dataset is published, add a link to it in your department’s section on data.gov.uk.
Collection page
Add the new publication to your department’s collection page for this data.
Make sure the collection page is tagged to the Government transparency and accountability policy.
Collection page template
Title: [Department name or acronym]: spending over £500
Summary: All data on [department] spending over £500 with an electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS) since [month year].
Body (optional):
[Department] publishes details of all spending over £500 using an electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS) on a monthly basis.
Subheadings: Add headings for each calendar year, most recent first.
If there are no reports for a quarter, add ‘Nothing was reported in [month to month] [year].’ under the heading.