Budget 85% open

Great Britain

What data is expected?

(French) Budget d'Etat au plus haut niveau. Cette catégorie vise les budgets qui sont des dépenses planifiées par l'Etat pour les années à venir et non les dépenses exécutées.

  • (French) Budget par ministère
  • Budget par sous département
  • Description du budget par mission et par programme

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Openly licenced Yes
In an open and machine-readable format HTML, XML
Downloadable at once No All of the data is discoverable as text records and in some parts via APIs and other mechanisms. However it is not organised sufficiently to support bulk downloads of the information.
Up-to-date Yes
Publicly available Yes
Available free of charge Yes
findable 2
findable_steps General exploration of the UK Parliament and Parliament.data sites.
licence_url https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/ All the data covered by this submission is re-usable under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, which is compliant with the Open Definition.
Collected by government Yes In Britain this type of information is the responsibility of Parliament, which is legally separate from government; however I have answered Yes on the basis that the institutions are equivalent in the sense of being official sources. (This submission does not cover data available from civil society sources such as mySociety.)
usability 1 Documents and debates related to bills are presented in a manner that is accessible for reading, but generally information about bills is not available as structured data; and where structured data is available users need to familiarise themselves with the Parliament.Data APIs in order to access it. Data on votes is particularly opaque.
collector_name Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS)
characteristics Content of bill, Author of bill, Votes on bill per member of parliament, Transcripts of debates on bill, Status of bill
location https://www.parliament.uk/business/bills-and-legislation - Bills and legislation (Parliament), https://www.data.parliament.uk/dataset/53 - Bills Text XML (Parliament.data), https://www.data.parliament.uk/dataset/bills - Bills Metadata (Parliament.data), https://www.data.parliament.uk/dataset/09 - House of Commons Divisions (Parliament.data)
In Britain this type of information is the responsibility of Parliament, which is legally separate from government; however I have answered Yes on the basis that the institutions are equivalent in the sense of being official sources. (This submission does not cover data available from civil society sources such as mySociety.) All the data covered by this submission is re-usable under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, which is compliant with the Open Definition. All of the data is discoverable as text records and in some parts via APIs and other mechanisms. However it is not organised sufficiently to support bulk downloads of the information. Documents and debates related to bills are presented in a manner that is accessible for reading, but generally information about bills is not available as structured data; and where structured data is available users need to familiarize themselves with the Parliament Data APIs in order to access it. Data on votes is particularly opaque.

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Meta data

Data location   https://www.parliament.uk/business/bills-and-legislation - Bills and legislation (Parliament)
   https://www.data.parliament.uk/dataset/53 - Bills Text XML (Parliament.data)
   https://www.data.parliament.uk/dataset/bills - Bills Metadata (Parliament.data)
   https://www.data.parliament.uk/dataset/09 - House of Commons Divisions (Parliament.data)
Data licence   https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/
Data format   HTML, XML
Reviewer   Anton Shaffer
Submitters   Owen Boswarva
Last modified   Tue Dec 06 2016 21:48:28 GMT+0000 (UTC)