Single spends over £25,000

Following guidance issued by HM Treasury we will be publishing details of any spending on single items over £25,000 each month and they can be found in our document library.

The aim of the guidance is to improve the transparency of how public funds are used and covers all public bodies, including NHS Trusts, local councils and government departments.

This transparency across operations will help to enable public bodies to be held to account.

In accordance with these guidelines, here is a brief overview of how the single spend documents are structured:

Department family - This is needed to identify spend to each departmental area.
Entity - This is the name of the individual entity, to allow for the identification of the data for each entity.
Date - When the transaction took place.
Expense type - The general nature of the expenditure being recorded e.g. consultancy spend.
Expense area - This is the part of our entity that has spent the money.
Supplier - The name of the supplier as per our vendor record. Each individual transaction
must be shown separately. The supplier name is shown in full.
Transaction number - This is the system transaction number for the payment held by the individual department.
Amount in sterling - The amount disclosed is the amount recorded on the finance system for each individual transaction.
Supplier VAT registration number - Where this information is readily available, the VAT registration number of each supplier is shown.

All of SECAmb's single monthly spends over £25,000 can be found in our document library.

Here is a visualisation of spends over £25,000 in March 2013:

Single spends over 25k