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  • Public Administration
  • Sociology
  • Network Science

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  • Increasing importance of trust in government and policy effectiveness.
  • Unique context of UK government spending: transparency, scandals, austerity, and Brexit.
  • Need for micro-level analysis of central government expenditure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce centgovspend, an open-source software library.
  • Automate scraping and parsing of central government spending data.
  • Facilitate analysis of payments to private entities and supplier relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an open-source software library (centgovspend).
  • Scraped and parsed over 4.9 million UK central government payment records.
  • Optionally reconciled supplier data for detailed analysis.

Main Results:

  • Successfully processed over £3.5 trillion in government payments.
  • Demonstrated prototype applications in public administration, sociology, and network science.
  • Highlighted the potential for micro-level analysis of public procurement.

Conclusions:

  • Centgovspend provides a robust tool for analyzing public procurement data.
  • The library enables new insights into government spending, supplier networks, and public administration.
  • Recommendations are provided for future directions in public procurement data origination and analysis.