Transparency
The current Local Government Transparency Code was published in 2015 and updated in January 2025, a summary of its provisions can be found below. The Code applies to all parish and town councils with either gross income or expenditure over £200,000. For councils with turnover of £25 to £200k which is the category that Upper Clatford Parish Council is in, it is ‘recommended as best practice’ that councils follow the Code as below.
The Code requires the publication of specified categories of data:
- Expenditure exceeding £500 - All expenditure published in minutes (Notice Boards and website) Minutes
- Government Procurement Card transactions N/A
- Procurement information - publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts that exceeds £5,000
- Land and building assets - Published on website - see Asset Register
- Grants made to voluntary and community bodies - Published on website
- Organisation chart - Published on website
- Trade union facility time - N/A
- Parking revenues - N/A
- Controlled parking spaces - N/A
- Social housing asset value - N/A
- Senior salary(ies) - Published on website
- Constitution
- Pay multiple - N/A
- Counter-fraud work - policy to be delivered.
- Waste Contracts -
In addition this Parish Council will also publish:
- End of Year Accounts according to the format of the Annual Return
- Annual Governance Statement
- Conclusion of Audit
- Governance Policies
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