We are publishing details of payments over £25,000 to improve openness in how public money is used. The amounts shown include VAT where applicable.
We aim to update this page monthly by the 15th working day of each month, starting with the information for April to September 2010 inclusive by the 31st October 2010.
The data is taken directly from our financial management system and is in a raw format. If you use the data we would be grateful if you would a) share your results with us and b) credit NHS Blackburn with Darwen Teaching Care Trust Plus as the source.
Any requests for more details about these items will be dealt with under the freedom of information requests.
Where payments under £25,000 appear in a report, this will be because an invoice for more than £25,000 has been broken down across different areas of expenditure.
In line with Department of Health guidance, there are some items of expenditure which are excluded from the reports. These are:
- Salary payments to staff
- Pension contributions and National Insurance Contributions
- Severance payments
- Payments to individuals from legal process - compensation payments, legal settlements, fraud payments
- Money administered on behalf of a client
- Indemnity payments
- Bona vacantia (ownerless property which by law passes to the Crown)
- Competition prizes - where a normal part of operations
- Expenditure on current military operations (including payments to contractors)
- Expenditure by secret service organisations, national security agencies or special forces, and tackling serious crime
- Transactions with foreign governments (if privileged under FOI)
- Settlements made with companies as part of an arbitration or legal process, which is conditional on confidentiality
- Potential betrayal of a commercial confidence, or prejudice to a legitimate commercial interest
- Spending where disclosure of either paying department or recipient would pose a personal security threat e.g. spending in fragile countries
- Civil List and payments to Royal Households
- Transactions relating to the financing or underwriting of debt e.g. purchase of credit default swaps
- Provisions or promises to pay not yet realised
Important note about the format of the data
We are publishing the data in CSV format to allow the data to be analysed or sorted.
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.
