What we spend
This page contains details of DWP payments that are over:
- £25,000 or
- £500 and made using a Government Procurement Card.
This is in line with Cabinet Office policy.
Payments are defined as all:
- individual invoices,
- grant payments,
- expense payments, or
- other such transactions.
Payments for staff salaries are excluded. The payments data is in .csv format, which means you will need to expand the columns to view the data in full.
Send any questions about DWP monthly payments data to: quarryhouse.supplyingdwpqh@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
- DWP payments over £25,000
- DWP payments over £500 and made using a Government Procurement Card
- Departmental businesses covered
- What the reports on payments over £25,000 include
DWP payments over £25,000
- DWP payments – February 2013 (7.7MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – January 2013 (7.30MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – December 2012 (7.0MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – November 2012 (5.8MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – October 2012 (7.6MB) CSV file
Please note - columns D and E (Expense Type and Expense Area) have been
amended to provide more detail as to the origin of payments. Publications will be
in this format for future months. - DWP payments – September 2012 (5MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – August 2012 (4.9MB) CSV file – updated 7 November 2012
- DWP payments – July 2012 (4.9MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – June 2012 (3.86MB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group payments – June 2012 (11KB) CSV file
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) website closed on 1 August 2012. This data reflects their payments in June 2012. Future releases will be combined with the DWP data. - DWP payments – May 2012 (4.8MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – April 2012 (3.6MB) CSV file – updated 7 November 2012
- DWP payments – March 2012 (5MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – February 2012 (4MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – January 2012 (6.1MB) CSV file – updated 23 March 2012
- DWP payments – December 2011 (3.8MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – November 2011 (4.6MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – October 2011 (3.2MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – September 2011 (4.4MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – August 2011 (2.8MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – July 2011 (3.1MB) CSV file – updated 7 November 2012
- DWP payments – June 2011 (2.7MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – May 2011 (2.4MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – April 2011 (2.3MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – March 2011 (3MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – February 2011 (2MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – January 2011 (2MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – December 2010 (2MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – November 2010 (3MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – October 2010 (2.53MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – September 2010 (3MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – August 2010 (2.72MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – July 2010 (3.1MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – June 2010 (3.3MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – May 2010 (3.6MB) CSV file
- DWP payments – April 2010 (3.2MB) CSV file
- DWP monthly payments spreadsheets – explanatory notes (42KB)
(updated December 2011)
DWP payments over £500 and made using a Government Procurement Card
- DWP GPC payments – January 2013 (1.2KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – December 2012 (1.3KB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group GPC payments – December 2012 (6KB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group GPC payments – November 2012 (7KB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group GPC payments – October 2012 (8KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – November 2012 (5KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – October 2012 (5KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – September 2012 (5KB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group GPC payments – September 2012 (7KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – August 2012 (5KB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group GPC payments – August 2012 (8KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – July 2012 (1KB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group GPC payments – July 2012 (7KB) CSV file
- Child Maintenance Group GPC payments – June 2012 (7KB) CSV file
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) website closed on 1 August 2012. This data reflects their payments in June 2012. Future releases will be combined with the DWP data. - DWP GPC payments – June 2012 (1KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – May 2012 (2KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – April 2012 (3KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – March 2012 (3KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – February 2012 (3KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – January 2012 (3KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – December 2011 (2KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – November 2011 (3KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – October 2011 (4KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – September 2011 (4KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – August 2011 (3KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – July 2011 (4KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – June 2011 (5KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – May 2011 (3KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments – April 2011 (5KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments report – 2010-11 (121KB) CSV file
- DWP GPC payments report – 2009-10 (223KB) CSV file
Departmental businesses covered
The DWP monthly reports cover the following businesses that use the Department’s accounting system, except the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) – see below:
- DWP corporate centre
- Jobcentre Plus
- Pension, Disability and Carers Service, and
- DWP Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs)
The Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) that are covered on the DWP reports are:
- Independent Living Funds
- Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board
- Disability Employment Advisory Committee
- Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
- Equality 2025
- Social Security Advisory Committee, and
- Direct.gov (until their payments are not made by the DWP accounting system)
Other DWP Non Departmental Public Bodies (including CMEC) are publishing their data on their own web sites. National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) and The Pension Protection Fund are not publishing this data because they are exempt as public corporations.
What the reports on payments over £25,000 include
The DWP reports cover payments for:
- goods and services
- grants to third party providers
- grant in aid
- expenses
- rent and
- policy related lending.
We also include:
- credit notes over £25,000
- transactions with other government departments or public bodies.
The reports contain data extracted from the Department’s accounting system using a programme that selects payments that fit the specified criteria. The value of the payments published will reflect the running costs of the Department excluding staff pay.
The reports do not contain payments that can be excluded under the HM Treasury guidance. These will mainly be payments that are commercially sensitive or personal information covered by the Data Protection Act.
They also do not contain payments to staff or benefit-related payments for members of the public.
