Council Expenditure over £500

We publish lists of individual payments (with a value over £500) to suppliers each month for the current financial year and thereafter published yearly.

There will be occasions where we will be unable to give you details of all expenses over £500. Examples of this would include foster carers, people receiving social care payments, refunds and employees expenses. On these occasions, where we are able to provide you with the majority of the report information but cannot give you the suppliers details, the supplier name will read REDACTED PERSONAL DATA

Certain transactions may be redacted or be exempt from publication because the transaction contains personal information that falls under Data Protection Law 2018. These payments have been redacted and the entry is listed as REDACTED PERSONAL DATA.

This information has been excluded or redacted from publication where:

• the information is personal and identifies an individual
• or where publication of the data can harm an individual. e.g. information related to the disclosure of the location of a vulnerable child or adult.

Each report shows:

• body name
• directorate
• area
• service area
• division
• cost centre
• cost centre name
• account code
• cipfa sub-classification
• date
• trans no
• amount net
• supplier name
• pay method
• classification

Any FOI requests received in relation to these matters received prior to the next planned publication date will be refused using the exemption under Section 22 of the FOI Act as it is information that we hold with the intention of publishing at some future (pre-scheduled) date.

The existing information available to you demonstrates that the Council has a process in place to regularly and routinely publish this information.

The Council recognises that at times information outside of this routine publication may be requested and that the Council should be open and transparent in its operations and more up to date information may assist this.

The information is, however, freely available on the Council’s website, and there is a statutory duty and timescale for publication. In accordance with the publication schedule quality and accuracy of information is checked.

To provide information outside of this schedule may impede the process and potentially impact on the quality and accuracy of the material disclosed. As a consequence, having considered the balance of public interest in favour of both withholding and disclosing information, the Council considers that the arguments in favour of maintaining the exemption outweigh the arguments in favour of disclosing it.