[wdmmg-discuss] Public Sector Procurement Expenditure Survey

Thu Sep 23 11:09:23 UTC 2010

Good find Anna.

I agree it is a serious challenge to fit local spending into COFOG 
categories.

I've been trying to identify the categorisation system you are referring 
to from the documents on the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) website.

I've got one system that is:

Clinical Support Services
Environmental Services
Financial Services 
Interpretation & Translation Services
Learning & Development Services 
Legal Services
Operational Services
Technical Services 
Uncategorised

But there is also a categorisation of:

Social Care
Construction
Professional Services Other
Facilities
ICT
Defence
Professional Services Consultancy
Personnel Related
Professional Services Temporary Staff
Travel
Vehicles
Waste Management
Energy and Utilities
Marketing and Media
Office Solutions
Engineering Goods
Logistics
Operational Goods
Clinical and Medical
Fuels Lubricants and Gases

Which one do you think is best, or is there another system I've over 
looked? Also it isn't clear if there is a second level of breakdown to 
these systems.

Lisa

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Anna Powell-Smith wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The CLG has recently released some spending data [1], and this raises an
> interesting question about another spending dataset.
>
> The CLG's spending categories are taken from the "Public Sector Procurement
> Expenditure Survey" (catchy title). I've just noticed that the OGC has
> *already* released some departmental spending data using the same
> categorizations [2].
>
>> From a quick once-over, the OGC's data looks fairly amenable
> to visualisation. It seems to cover all government departments, too.
>
> Perhaps there is the potential to create a new bubble vis from the OGC data.
> We could then link the CLG and other departmental spending releases to this
> dataset and vice versa - which would be a whole lot easier than trying to
> match them with the COFOG data.
>
> I don't know much about the OGC data, though. Two key questions:
>
> 1. Does anyone know anything about the OGC's PSPES data - what it actually
> covers and what the quality is like?
> 2. Does anyone know whether the other, forthcoming departmental spending
> releases are likely to use the PSPES categorisations?
>
> <http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/spendingdata0910>best
> wishes
> Anna
>
> [1] http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/spendingdata0910
> <http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/spendingdata0910>[2]
> http://www.ogc.gov.uk/procurement_public_spending.asp
>