[wdmmg-discuss] Whole of Government Accounts Wikipedia article

Wed Jun 16 06:45:11 UTC 2010

No, I don't know how the L-packs are stored but the people at WGA are 
exceptionally helpful and have invited me to an overview afternoon for the 
L-packs.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Francis Irving wrote:

> 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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