1 Cabinet Office, Transparency-overview. www.cabinetOffice.gov.uk/content/transparency-overview
2 HM Treasury, Autumn Statement 2011, available at http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/autumn_statement.pdf
3 Prime Minister's letter to Cabinet Ministers on transparency and open data, July 2011, available at www.number10.gov.uk/news/letter-to-cabinet-ministers-on-transparency-and-open-data/
4 By February 2012, six departments had not yet provided their spending data for December 2011.
5 Available at www.hmrc.gov.uk/transparency/implementation-plan.htm
6 HM Treasury, Autumn Statement 2011, available at http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/autumn_statement.pdf
7 This excludes staff costs of the National Policing Improvement Agency crime map team.
8 Cabinet Office, Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation, August 2011.
9 The website is available at http://communities.maven-cast.com/pg/groups/3731
10 K O'Hara, Transparent Government, Not Transparent Citizens: A Report on Privacy and Transparency for the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office, 2011.
11 Audit Commission, Protecting the public purse, 2011, p. 21.
12 Home Office, Fighting Fraud Locally: The Local Government Fraud Strategy, April 2012, available at www.homeOffice.gov.uk/publications/agencies-public-bodies/nfa/fghting-fraud-locally-strategy/. The Department for Communities and Local Government also issued in May 2011 a ten-point checklist to assist councils in tackling fraud, available at www.communities.gov.uk/news/newsroom/1899161
13 See Department for Communities and Local Government, The Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency, September 2011, para 16, available at www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/1997468.pdf
14 HM Treasury, Guidance for publishing spend over £25k, sections 2.10 to 2.12, available at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/government_spend280211.pdf
15 Cabinet Office, Open Public Services: White Paper, 2011, p. 14.
16 Department for Education, The Importance of Teaching: White Paper, 2010, pp. 66ff.
17 The website is available at www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance
18 The website is available at http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/
19 Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Close to home: An Inquiry into older people and human rights in home care, 2011 .
20 Prime Minister's letter to Government departments on opening up data, May 2010, available at www.number10.gov.uk/news/letter-to-government-departments-on-opening-up-data/
21 The website is available at http://www.police.uk/
22 The most recent is Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, The crime scene: A review of police crime and incident reports, January 2012.
23 Department for Communities and Local Government, Accountability: Adapting to decentralisation, 2011, section 1.
24 Department for Communities and Local Government, The Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency, September 2011, available at www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/1997468.pdf
25 HM Treasury, Autumn Statement 2011, available at http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/autumn_statement.pdf
26 G Vickery, Review of Recent Studies on PSI Re-use and Related Market Developments, 2011, pp. 33-5.
27 Cabinet Office, Further Detail on Open Data Measures in the Autumn Statement 2011, 2011, p. 3.
28 Office of Fair Trading, The commercial use of public information, 2006.
29 Office of Fair Trading, The commercial use of public information, 2006, Annex G, pp. 19-20.
30 R Pollock, Welfare Gains from Opening up Public Sector Information in the UK, University of Cambridge, undated, p. 2, available at http://rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/psi_openness_gains.pdf
31 D Newbery et al., Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and HM Treasury, 2008.
32 Costs and benefits in this paragraph are discounted in line with HM Treasury's Green Book guidance.
33 The Department for Culture, Media and Sport did not take part in this work.