Publications

Peak District National Park Authority publications

Visitor guides
Maps and information about places to walk, cycle and visit
Strategies and Action Plans
Documents that define how we will meet our national park management plan objectives
Authority Policies
Policies that define how we work as an organisation
Plans and policies

Local Spending Data

In June 2010 the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government committed local Authorities to publishing items of spending over £500 by January 2011. The publication forms part of the Authority’s undertaking to greater openness and transparency within local government.

The data is drawn from the Authority’s accounting system in line with the guidance provided in the Department of Communities and Local Government’s publication “Local Transparency: A Practitioners Guide to Publishing Local Spending Data (183KB)

An explanation of the column headings is provided below:

Month: this is the month of the year in which the transaction was posted to the accounting system where 1 = April, 12 = March
Date: the date the invoice was posted to the accounting system
Category: this is the expenditure category and is the description of the code against which the expenditure is allocated in the accounting system. The coding is in line with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy's (CIPFA) requirements for Local Authorities. For further information see http://www.cipfa.org.uk
Activity: the overall department incurring the cost (in a number of cases this will be a project within a service)
Cost Centre: the service incurring the cost
Description: this is the description applied to the expenditure item and is necessarily truncated because there is a limited space within the accounting system for narrative. If any item is incomplete or not clear please contact the persons named below and a full description of the item can be provided. Please quote the reference number of the item (see Transaction Ref below).
Supplier: this is the name of the person to whom the payment was made
Transaction Ref: this is the unique identifying reference number for the transaction and needs to be quoted if further information is required. Invoice payments are prefaced by "PIN" and Invoice credit notes are prefaced by "PCR"
Amount: this is the cost of the transaction and is quoted net of VAT. The amount is shown as a negative figure if the transaction is a refund (invoice credit). Please note that although the threshold for publishing invoice information is £500, all credit notes raised in a period are shown as the value of the credit note reduces the actual amount paid by the Authority to the supplier.

The data we've published under 'Local Spending Data' excludes:

all payments to individuals paid through payroll
payments to HM Revenue and Customs relating to Vat and payroll
all pension related payments

A note on data format

The data is provided in PDF format, but has also been made available as a CSV (comma separated value) file. Providing this option means that the file can be easily read in a variety of applications. However the CSV format uses a standard column width and not all entries may be completely visible. To view all the data, you will need to expand the columns. You can do this by selecting Format/Column/AutoFit Selection from the menu bar.

Licencing

Expenditure data falls under open public data and is therefore provided for free reuse, including commercial re-use, however, there are some limitations which are applied to its use and distribution, details of which are found under the Open Government Licence delivered by the National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence