Depth & Gaps

How far public data goes — and where honesty stops

English spend-over-£500 portals look deeper because the law makes them publish. Scotland does not. CivicLedger matches that UX on whatever you can legally hold — and marks the rest as a job, not a number.

Layers held
3
Layers still FOI
2

Publication depth

01
held / public
Council / group accounts
Service nets, related parties, remuneration · Published annually
02
held / public
Budget book / estimates
£2.127bn net 2025/26 + six service blocks · Committee PDF — now held line-by-line
03
held / public
Regulated contracts
Awards ≥ £50k · PCS + Power BI
04
not published
Supplier payment totals
FOI compromise layer · Often released; not proactively published
05
not published
Invoice lines / last penny
736k invoices/year · Not published; FOI often refused at line level

Jobs to close the gaps

critical
Every supplier payment (the penny layer)
Invoice / AP register
Copy FOI
high
Full service budget vs actual by subjective
Service cost centres
Copy FOI
high
Itemised HSCP / social care provider payments
Social care providers
Copy FOI
high
City Building / Glasgow Life / City Property ledgers
ALEOs
Copy FOI