Council Expenditure
Every payment over £500 made by local authorities, categorised by the council's own service areas.
Available Councils
Cornwall Council
Unitary authority · Payment data available
Why only one council?
Council transparency data is incredibly labour-intensive to collect. Each of the 300+ councils publishes CSVs in their own format, with their own column names, their own categorisation, and their own ideas about what constitutes a valid date. The files have to be pulled manually from each council's website, and the sheer volume of human errors in the data — misspelled supplier names, inconsistent service categories, missing fields — makes automated filtering a nightmare.
More councils will be added over time, but honestly, the dev really cannot be bothered to do all 300 at once. I'm tired boss. Contributions welcome.