Accounts

Transparency Code

The Local Transparency Code 2015 ensures that local people can now see and access data covering:

• How money is spent – for example, a minimum of all spending transactions over £500;
• Use of assets – ensuring that local people are able to scrutinise how well their local authority manages its assets;
• Decision making – how decisions are taken and who is taking them; and
• Issues important to local people – for example parking and the amount spent on them.

In principle the Government believes that all data held and managed by local authorities should be made available to people unless there are specific sensitivities to doing so.

A full copy of the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 can be viewed below