Article: Transparency of expenditure Article Body As a public funded organisation, the council has a duty to the residents that it serves to be transparent in presenting its finances for scrutiny. Publication of the attached reports forms part of this commitment to be open and transparent with its citizens. The files attached present all items of expenditure >£500. The information included is: Transaction Date Transaction Number Amount in Sterling Supplier Name Supplier ID Expense Area Expense Type Expense Code The information detailing the preceding month's spending over £500 will be published no later than 30 days after the month ends. We aim to be as transparent as we can but in some cases information regarded as commercially sensitive, or which relates to individuals, has been redacted. If you have any queries relating to this information please e-mail the BSS Contact Centre. We will aim to provide a response within three working days. This data is freely re-usable under the same terms as data.gov.uk: http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 December 2011 January 2012 February 2012 Important Note about the CSV files We have published the information in CSV format so that it can be easily read in a variety of applications. However the CSV format uses a standard column width and not all entries may be completely visible. To view all the data, you will need to expand the columns. You can do this by selecting all the cells in the file (the grey box beside column A and above row 1), and then clicking on Format / Column / AutoFitSelection.