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Making public spending more accountable (4th January 2010)

Billions of pounds of public money will be subject to increased scrutiny by citizens and councils, Communities Secretary John Denham announced today

Local Spending Reports provide information about how public money is being spent in local areas including money going to police and fire services, transport and health.

This is information enabling people to see how their taxes are being put to use. But at the moment if people want to see not only what is being spent but what that money is delivering they would need to trawl through an array of different data, reports and statistics.

Changes are therefore being proposed to improve the way that local spending reports are produced and presented. At the moment they exist as a series of excel spreadsheets. From next summer they will be published online in a clear and user friendly format that will enable the data to be easily interrogated.

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