Expenditure Data
The key dataset here is the Combined Online Information System (COINS). COINS is the primary database used by HMT for recording and analysing spending. It has a pseudo-double-entry structure and is the book of "prime entry" for the budget (planning spending) and forecasted outturn (what was actually spent).
A large sample of the COINS data is publicly available at data.gov.uk. We have gathered a variety of useful information to help interpret the COINS data:
The reason that COINS is important to this project is because it contains the main high level reports on public spending and almost all other government reports on spending are directly derived from it including:
While COINS shows spending and income, we also have another dataset called the Country Regional Analysis (CRA) which shows where public spending has effect: package:ukgov-finance-cra.
Income Data
The main package is:
Additional Data
Although this isn't key data at the present it is also useful:
[1] More details about the project -- which aims to visualise how the UK government spend public funds -- can be found at
Where Does My Money Go?.
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