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In order to improve openness and transparency in public spending, all Councils are required to publish details of items of expenditure over £500.
In June 2010, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government wrote to all local authorities informing them they would have to publish expenditure on items over £500. All councils are formally required to publish this data from 1 January 2011. In order to demonstrate a commitment to complete transparancy we have decided to also backdate our initial publication of data to 1 April 2010 (the beginning of the financial year). We will publish new data calendar monthly following the closure of accounts for the preceding month.
The reports can be found at the bottom of this page.
The data is taken directly from the council's financial management system and the amounts shown exclude the VAT element.
There are some items of expenditure that are excluded from the reports. These are:
- Payments of less than £500
- Banking investments
- Payments relating to employee & member remuneration
- Payments relating to benefits and homelessness payments
- Payments relating to vulnerable people or children (i.e. Foster Carers)
- Individual report lines may include payments under £500 for the following reasons:
- Once the VAT element is included the total is more than £500
- The invoice for more than £500 has been broken down across different areas of expenditure
- The invoice contains multiple lines and together they total more than £500.
Additional information about the data is available from our Published Reports page.
DATA Format
We are publishing the data (see Related Documents) in two formats.
- PDF file format - This the easiest format to read the data but does not allow the data to be easily analysed or sorted.
- CSV file format - This allows greater flexibility of how you use the data, and will allow you to upload the data into other applictions (such as Microsoft Excel) if required. These files are layed out in the standard format required by the Government.
Note: The reports have been drawn up in line with the Local transparency: a practitioners' guide to publishing local spend data 
guidance notes (dated November 2010). Requests for information relating to the expenditure reports should be made to the Information Governance Team, Torbay Council, Castle Circus, Torquay, TQ1 3DR or by email to informationgovernance@torbay.gov.uk .
guidance notes (dated November 2010). Requests for information relating to the expenditure reports should be made to the Information Governance Team, Torbay Council, Castle Circus, Torquay, TQ1 3DR or by email to informationgovernance@torbay.gov.uk .This data is freely re-usable under the same terms as data.gov.uk recommend.
recommend.CSV Documents | PDF Documents |
 April 2011 (CSV)Expenditure over £500 in April in CSV format. |  April 2011 (PDF)Expenditure over £500 in April in PDF format. |
| May 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in May in CSV format. | May 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in May in PDF format. |
| June 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in June in CSV format. | June 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in June in PDF format. |
| July 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in July in CSV format. | July 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in July in PDF format. |
| August 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in August in CSV format. | August 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in August in PDF format. |
| September 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in September in CSV format. | September 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in September in PDF format. |
| October 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in October in CSV format. | October 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in October in PDF format. |
| November 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in November in CSV format. | November 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in November in PDF format. |
| December 2011 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in December in CSV format. | December 2011 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in December in PDF format. |
| January 2012 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in January in CSV format. | January 2012 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in January in PDF format. |
| February 2012 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in February in CSV format. | February 2012 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in February in PDF format. |
| March 2012 (CSV) Expenditure over £500 in March in CSV format. | March 2012 (PDF) Expenditure over £500 in March in PDF format. |
Salary Disclosure details
In accordance
with the commitment of the council to improve transparency regarding the details of
senior council posts this Salary Levels link goes to those posts and details the level of remuneration
provided
for them and, where possible, their Job Descriptions.
The council is currently in the middle of a comprehensive re-organisation
and, because some job
functions are being merged, a few of the senior Job Descriptions could not be finalised by the time
this material was published. As soon as the re-organisation has been completed and fresh Descriptions
created they will be provided through this Salary Levels link.
There is one outstanding post for which disclosure is being sought. The details
of this will also be
provided once this is obtained.
In the event of any questions in relation to this material please contact Ms Susan Wiltshire,
Human Resources Department
Related Websites
- Audit Commission: Council's Accounts: Your Rights
- Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
Contact Financial Services
- Tel: 01803 207285
- Email: financial.services@torbay.gov.uk
- Fax: 01803 207492
