[wdmmg-discuss] Whole of Government Accounts Wikipedia article

[Francis Irving]

Do you know how L-packs are stored in COINS?

In the Fact or the Adjustments table? Or in another table? And with
what dimensions set on it?

Sounds like it needs a political decision for release as well?

Francis

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:04:36PM +0100, Lisa Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Lisa Evans wrote:
> >
> >3. What I don't yet understand is why the WGA instructions for LA require
> >   the LA to record their spending down to the nearest 1 million pounds,
> >   and it then says this information is recorded in COINS, but the spending
> >   we see in COINS does not include any local bodies.
> >
> >You can see more what I mean here:
> >http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/localgovernmentfinance/governmentaccounts
> 
> I found out that local authorities, 448 bodies they say, are all
> required to document their spending in what is called an L-pack by
> 30th July every year. You can see the L-packs here -- pretty
> detailed spending records:
> 
> http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/localgovernmentfinance/governmentaccounts/wga200910/
> 
> The results of the L-packs are stored directly in COINS, and have
> been for at least the last 5 years or however long the whole of
> government accounts has been running.
> 
> So this is all in COINS but none of this is published with the rest
> of the COINS data.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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