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Prepare the data

The Cabinet Office Transparency Data team has provided this guidance on how to prepare your data.

Senior Officials Transparency Guidance (PDF, 286 KB, 17 pages)

They will commission you with - CSV (comma-separated values) templates, timing and appropriate approval processes.

This guidance will apply to transparency data for the period of January - March 2024 onwards, to be published in due course.

Government is committed to publishing this data quarterly.

Publish the data

Create a new GOV.UK publication page for each data release.

Publication page template

The publication title, summary, detail and file name is a government standard and must not be changed.

Publication type: Transparency data

Title: [Department name or acronym]: senior officials business expenses and hospitality, [month to month] [year]

Summary: Data on senior officials business expenses and hospitality, and [the permanent secretarys/permanent secretaries] meetings with external organisations.

Body:

[Department] publishes details of [the permanent secretarys/permanent secretaries] external meetings and senior officials business expenses and hospitality on a quarterly basis.

This data is also available on data.gov.uk:

• [add bulleted links to the data.gov.uk pages this data also appears on]

Associations

Policies: Government transparency and accountability

Policy areas: Government efficiency, transparency and accountability

CSV attachment titles:

• [Department]s permanent secretaries meetings, [month to month] [year]
• [Department]s senior officials expenses, [month to month] [year]
• [Department]s senior officials hospitality, [month to month] [year]

Add a link on data.gov.uk

When the dataset is published, add a link to it in your departments section on data.gov.uk.

Collection page

Add the new publication to your departments collection page for this data.

Make sure the collection page is tagged to the Government transparency and accountability policy.

Collection page template

Title: [Department]: senior officials business expenses, hospitality and meetings

Summary: All data on senior officials business expenses and hospitality, and [the permanent secretarys/permanent secretaries] meetings with external organisations.

Body (optional):
[Department] publishes details of senior officials business expenses and hospitality and the [the permanent secretarys/permanent secretaries] meetings on a quarterly basis.

Subheadings: Add headings for each calendar year, most recent first.

If there are no reports for a quarter, add Nothing was reported in [month to month] [year]. under the heading.