Government Procurement Card transactions

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) published a revised Transparency Code in October 2014, and as part of that, local authorities are required to publish open data.

Local authorities must publish details of every transaction on a Government Procurement Card. For each transaction, the following details must be published:

• date of the transaction
• local authority department which incurred the expenditure
• beneficiary
• amount
• Value Added Tax that cannot be recovered
• summary of the purpose of the expenditure, and
• merchant category (eg. computers, software etc).