How to publish central government spending over £25,000
Template for GOV.UK publication page for departmental core transparency data, to be published monthly.
Prepare the data
HM Treasury (HMT) provides guidance on how to prepare your data - including CSV templates, 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 £25,000, [month year]
Summary: Reports on departmental spending over £25,000.
Body:
[Department name] publishes details of all departmental spending over £25,000 on a monthly basis.
This data is also available on data.gov.uk:
- [add bulleted links to the data.gov.uk pages this data also appears on]
CSV attachment titles:
- [Department]’s spending over £25,000 for [month year]
Associations
Topic: Government efficiency, transparency and accountability
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 efficiency, transparency and accountability topic.
Collection page template
Title: [Department name or acronym]: departmental spending over £25,000
Summary: All data on departmental spending over £25,000.
Body (optional):
[Department] publishes details of all departmental spending over £25,000 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.