[wdmmg-discuss] CRA 2010: description and questions

Thu Aug 12 10:40:56 UTC 2010

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Anna Powell-Smith wrote:

> Question for Alistair/Lisa:
>
> In PESA 2009, the CRA parts are structured in just the same way as
> 2010 - Tables 9 and 10:
> http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/pespub_pesa09.htm
>
> But in the bitbucket package for CRA 2009, you don't actually use
> those two spreadsheets, you use something else:
> http://bitbucket.org/okfn/ukgov-finances-cra/src/tip/data.py pulls in:
> http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/cra_2009_db.csv
>
> This CSV file classifies every row by both region and sub-function,
> more helpfully.

Correct.

> Where did it come from - was this the spreadsheet released under FOI?
> If so, do you think there's any chance we could obtain a similar one
> again through FOI?

I think it might have been a one-off, but I don't know. Lisa?

 	Alistair