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Monthly spend over £500 in the Department for International Development

This series brings together all documents relating to monthly spend over £500 in the Department for International Development.

From:
Department for International Development
Published
2 October 2013
Last updated
27 October 2020 — See all updates

In line with UK government commitments to increase transparency, we publish details of spend over £500 on a monthly basis. Data published is in the format set out by HM Treasury and consists of:

  • departmental family – the parent department
  • entity – the entity to which the transaction relates (in this case always DFID)
  • date – transaction date as recorded in financial system
  • expense type – nature of expenditure made
  • expense area – division within the organisation where the expenditure occurred
  • supplier – name of recipient as recorded in financial system
  • transaction no – system generated reference number
  • amount in sterling – invoice amount including irrecoverable VAT and excluding recoverable VAT.

Security and scope

Publication includes all spend which, in compliance with HM Treasury guidance, does not compromise national or personal security, foreign relations or legal obligations under acts such as the Data Protection Act.

All transactions for Afghanistan are currently excluded pending further discussions with our suppliers over security concerns.

Credit notes and transactions with other government departments are within scope of publication. Income is excluded.

Transactions are published as they originally appear in the financial system and do not include subsequent corrective journals.

Some payments to suppliers which are over £25,000 in total actually consist of several smaller value items allocated to different account codes (expense types) or business areas (expense areas). In these instances the smaller values are shown individually and together make up the overall payment to the supplier. This results in a higher volume of transaction lines than payments to suppliers.

Travel

DFID expenditure made via the central travel provider (Hogg Robinson Group) and via procurement cards (Natwest Commercial Card Division) has been broken down into expense area and expense type charged rather than the single payment which is made to the supplier.

Payments are made to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) through the “post account” system, where FCO provides DFID with an accounts payable service in some locations overseas and recharges the expenditure to DFID.

These payments are broken into each location charged rather than the single payment made to FCO.

Crown Agents

In some instances DFID uses The Crown Agents as a procurement agent to source and purchase cost effective goods and services.

Crown Agents Bank provides management, payment and reporting services to DFID and partner governments in relation to Financial Aid grants. In these instances The Crown Agents will also be listed as the supplier.

Enquiries should be directed to the Public Enquiry Point, enquiry@dfid.gov.uk

Media enquiries please contact us on:

Tel: 020 7023 0600, email: pressoffice@dfid.gov.uk

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Spend over £500 in 2015

Spend over £500 in 2014

Spend over £500 in 2013

Spend over £500 in 2012

Spend over £500 in 2011

Updates to this page

Published 2 October 2013
Last updated 27 October 2020 + show all updates

  1. August 2020 data added

  2. Data for July 2020 added.

  3. Data for June 2020 added

  4. Data for May 2020 added.

  5. Spend data for April 2020 added

  6. March 2020 data added.

  7. Spending data for February 2020 added

  8. Data for January 2020 added.

  9. Data for December 2019 added.

  10. October and November 2019 data added.

  11. September 2019 data added.

  12. Data for August 2019 added

  13. Data for July 2019 added

  14. Department for International Development: spending over £500, May 2019 added

  15. Department for International Development: spending over £500, April 2019 published.

  16. Department for International Development: spending over £500, March 2019 added.

  17. Data for February 2019 added.

  18. Data for January 2019 added

  19. Dat for December 2018 added.

  20. Department for International Development: spending over £500, November 2018 added

  21. Department for International Development: spending over £500, October 2018 added

  22. Latest figures added.

  23. August 2018 figures added.

  24. July 2018 figures added.

  25. Department for International Development: spending over £500, June 2018 added

  26. May 2018 figures added.

  27. April 2018 data added.

  28. Department for International Development: spending over £500, February 2018 added

  29. January 2018 data added

  30. December 2017 figures added.

  31. November 2017 figures added.

  32. October 2017 figures added.

  33. September 2017 figures added.

  34. August 2017 data added

  35. July 2017 figures added.

  36. June 2017 data added

  37. May 2017 figures added.

  38. March and April 2017 added.

  39. January 2017 data added

  40. December 2016 data added.

  41. Data for October 2016 added

  42. Department for International Development: spending over £500, September 2016 added

  43. August 2016 data added

  44. Department for International Development: spending over £500, July 2016 added

  45. Data for May 2016 added

  46. April 2016 data added.

  47. February 2016 data added

  48. Department for International Development: spending over £500 January 2016

  49. Department for International Development: spending over £500, December 2015

  50. October 2015 data added

  51. Department for International Development: spending over £500, August 2015 added

  52. July 2015 information added

  53. Spend over £500 for June 2015 added

  54. DFID spend over £500 for May 2015 added

  55. Spend over £500 for April 2015 added

  56. £500 spend for January 2015 added

  57. DFID spend over £500 for December 2014 added

  58. Spend over £500 for November 2014 added

  59. DFID spend over £500 for October 2014 added

  60. September 2014 added

  61. August 2014 data added

  62. Spend over £500 for July 2014 added

  63. May and June 2014 details added

  64. DFID spend over £500 for April 2014 added

  65. DFID spend over £500 for February and March 2014

  66. December 2013 data added

  67. November 2013 spend added

  68. October 2013 details added

  69. New group title added

  70. September 2013 added

  71. First published.

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