Open data and transparency

Our non-personal data is open and available for you to access and to use in applications.

Government Open Data Project

Achieving greater transparency of public bodies is a central theme of the Government's programme. To support our commitment to transparency, involvement and innovation we are working towards making all public data (that is not sensitive or personal) freely available to view and download in a variety of formats.

This data includes:

• Business rates (National Non Domestic Rates - NNDR)
  • Every month we publish details of Business rates including the accounts in credit, empty business properties, rate relief and rateable value over £25,000. New business rates accounts created within the last month are published every three months.
• Car park income and expenditure
• Current contracts
• Councillors' allowances
• Constitution
• Councillors' attendance
• Election results
• fraud data
  • Fraud prevention figures for financial year 2019-20
  • Fraud prevention figures 2014-2019
• grants
  • Community grants
  • Locality budgets
  • RIGs
  • Greener Business Grant Register - Charities
• Payments to suppliers over £250
• Purchase orders over £5,000
• planning development
  • View or comment on planning applications
  • Conservation areas and appraisals
• Public health funerals 2014 - 2019
• tender opportunities - current tenders
• waste contracts over £5000

Other data

Employees

• Gender pay gap report February 2019
• Organisation chart - March 2020
• Pay policy statement
• Senior staff salaries 2019/20 – Statement of accounts (See Note 28 - Officer's remuneration)
• Senior staff salaries 2019/20 - Additional information including budgets, job roles and responsibilities
• Senior staff salaries 2019/20 - Remuneration summary
• Trade Union facility time 2019/20

Locality budgets

Every councillor has a locality budget. This is funding that councillors can use to support community groups in their wards. Each councillor has £2,812.50 to spend throughout the year on projects that benefit the community.

The spreadsheet below shows what has currently been spent by each councillor. Councillors are working with communities all the time and the spreadsheets do not reflect agreements that are still to be processed. They also don't reflect any current discussions that councillors may be having with their local communities about other funding options.

• Forest Heath District Council Locality budget end of year spend 2018-2019

• St Edmundsbury Borough Council Locality budget end of year spend 2018-2019

• West Suffolk Council Locality Budget Quarter One Spend 2019-2020
  Please note:  Spend in quarter one has been nil to date due to restrictions placed on councillors during the election process (purdah restrictions). Consideration of locality budget applications resumed in June 2019.
• West Suffolk Council Locality Budget Quarter Two Spend 2019-2020
• West Suffolk Council Locality Budget Quarter Three Spend 2019-2020
• West Suffolk Council Locality Budget Quarter Four Spend 2019 - 2020
• West Suffolk Council Locality Budget Quarter One Spend 2020 - 2021