How to publish spend control data
Template for GOV.UK publication page for departmental core transparency data, to be published quarterly.
Prepare the data
The Cabinet Office Spend Control team provides guidance on how to prepare your data - including CSV (comma separated values) templates, timing and appropriate approval processes.
Government committed to publishing this data quarterly.
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]: spend control data for [month to month] [year]
Summary: Centrally approved new spending on property, advertising, consultancy, technology and recruitment
Body:
[Department] publishes details of approved expenditure in areas limited by spending controls on a quarterly basis.
This data is also available on data.gov.uk:
- [add bulleted links to the data.gov.uk pages this data also appears on]
Associations
Policies: Government transparency and accountability
Policy areas: Government efficiency, transparency and accountability
CSV attachment titles:
- [Department]’s exceptions to spending controls [month to month] [year] (if you publish all exceptions in one spreadsheet)
- [Department]’s exceptions to spending controls: advertising and marketing [month to month] [year]
- [Department]’s exceptions to spending controls: consultancy [month to month] [year]
- [Department]’s exceptions to spending controls: information communications technology [month to month] [year]
- [Department]’s exceptions to spending controls: property [month to month] [year]
- [Department]’s exceptions to spending controls: recruitment [month to 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]: spend control data
Summary: Centrally approved spending for property, advertising, consultancy, technology and recruitment.
Body (optional):
[department] publishes details of new spend approved by central government spending controls on a quarterly 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.