East Riding Council to 'open the books'
Under new Government rules all councils and Fire and Rescue Authorities are expected to publish such detailed information so that the public can see where their money is being spent.
The information should be easily available online with local people knowing exactly where to find it. It should also be easy for people to share that information and be able to re-use it for public analysis and to hold local councils to account.
As part of this process the HU12 website, encouraged by information on the Department of Communities and Local Government website, has requested the East Riding Council tell us when the details of its expenditure over £500 will be available, and where on the Council's website this information will be found? We will publish this information when it is provided.
Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles said in a recent press statement:
"I want to see an army of 'Armchair Auditors' pore over the information and hold their council to account if things are not done right. That means the data also has to be easily accessible... There are hundreds of computer whizzes who'll find creative new ways to make that raw data relevant to local life."A Central Government resource to assist citizens wanting to access national and local data for free re-use is available via the website data.gov.uk. Other community websites like OpenlyLocal are also making it easier to access data and to interrogate or compare the published information. A link to the Openly Local information on the East Riding Council is available below:
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BIOLAP has actually been able to load and publish details of more than 60 Councils' payments to suppliers into its free Council Expenses Dashboard at - http://www.biolap.co.uk/index.php/councilexpenses.html
Users can slice and dice, compare and sort the spend as well as drill through to underlying transactions.
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