Financial transparency

These reports are created as part of a central government initiative to increase financial transparency within local government

Monthly spending reports over £500

Why are there entries of less than £500?

This could be because:

• invoices are sometimes split between different departments within the council, but the total equals more than £500
• invoices may cover more than one category of spending, but the total equals more than £500
• amounts shown do not include VAT.

Contract register

In accordance with transparency requirements, the council publishes its contracts register on a quarterly basis. 

• Contract Register - July 2026 (xlsx format, 135 KB)
• Contract Register - April 2026 (xlsx format, 136 KB)
• Contract Register - January 2026 (xlsx format, 130 KB)
• Contract Register - October 2025 (xlsx format, 151 KB)
• Contract Register - July 2025 (xlsx format, 157 KB)
• Contract Register - April 2025 (xlsx format, 149 KB)
• Contract Register - January 2025 (xlsx format, 147 KB)
• Contract Register - November 2024 (xlsx format, 169 KB)
• Contract Register - July 2024 (xlsx format, 136 KB)
• Contract Register - April 2024 (xlsx format, 153 KB)
• Contract Register January 2024 (xlsx format, 121 KB)
• Contract register - October 2023 (xlsx format, 130 KB)
• Contract register - July 2023 (xlsx format, 2.7Mb)
• Contract register - April 2023 (xlsx format, 128Kb)
• Contract register - January 2023 (xlsx format, 105Kb)
• Contract register - October 2022 (xlsx format, 90Kb)
• Contract register - July 2022 (xlsx format, 105Kb)
• Contract register - April 2022 (xlsx format, 88Kb)
• Contract register - January 2022 (xlsx format, 101Kb)
• Contracts register - October 2021 (xlsx format, 85Kb)
• Contract register - July 2021 (xlsx format, 92Kb)
• Contract register - April 2021 (xlsx format, 125KB)
• Contract register - June 2020 (xlsx format, 125KB)

Supported Transport DPS

Supplier list

Supported Transport DPS Supplier Lists - November 2020 {csv format, 8KB)

All council transactions by procurement card (PC)

Supplier Invoice Payment Performance - Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Reg. 113)

In accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Regulation 113); we publish performance data for the financial year ending 31 March for payment of valid and undisputed Supplier Invoices within 30 days.

Supplier payment performance and Contract Payment Information

Under the Procurement Act 2023, Oxfordshire County Council publishes information about its supplier payment performance and certain payments made under public contracts.

Section 70 Contract Payments

Oxfordshire County Council publishes information about payments that fall within section 70 of the Procurement Act 2023. You can search and view the Council’s published payments on the Government’s Payments Transparency Register.

Payments compliance notices: section 69(1)

Payments compliance notices are intended to replace and strengthen Regulation 113(7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Under section 69(1) of the Procurement Act 2023, the Council must publish a payments compliance notice within 30 days of the end of each reporting period where it has made, or is required to make, a payment under a public contract.

The notice reports how promptly the Council has paid its suppliers, including its average payment time and the proportion of invoices paid within 30 days, 31 to 60 days, and 61 days or more.

Further information

(*% payments paid outside the agreed period) The authority does not currently capture contractual payment terms at the invoice level within its payment system. As a result, it is not possible to calculate the percentage of payments made outside agreed payment periods. This metric will be introduced once contractual payment term data becomes available. 

Explanation of data

Reporting Period

Section 69(1) of the Procurement Act 2023 requires a contracting authority to publish data on a six-monthly basis.

Average days to pay in the period

The average number of days taken to make payments in the reporting period, measured from the date of receipt of invoice or other notice to the date the cash is received by the supplier.

% payments paid in 0 to 30, 31 to 60 and 61+ days

The percentage of payments made within the reporting period which were paid in 30 days or fewer, between 31 and 60 days, and in 61 days or longer.

% payments paid outside the agreed period

The percentage of payments due within the reporting period which were not paid within the agreed payment period.

Percentage of payments made in accordance with term in section 68(2) Reg38(2)(CA)

The proportion of invoices, out of all received invoices, a contracting authority did not pay in accordance with section 68(2) because they were either not paid within 30 days from the day the invoice was received or were disputed or considered invalid by the contracting authority.

Notes on provided data

The data presented above relates to all contracts, including those signed under earlier legislation. It is based on invoices registered within our Corporate Payment System. The time taken to pay is calculated from the date an invoice is first registered in the system.

The data excludes payments to individuals (such as foster carers or transfer payments), schools and other government bodies and items understood to be in dispute at the end of the financial year.

The data only includes invoices paid within the reporting period. If an invoice was received but not yet paid by the end of the period, it is not included in the data set. This is set out in the regulations.

The purpose of this notice is to provide transparency over the council's compliance with the act and, more specifically, how promptly they pay their suppliers.

These metrics are intended to enable the data to be directly compared with the data submitted by private companies under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017.

The feeder system payments have their invoices processed within systems that sit outside of the Corporate Payment System and it is only the payments that are processed through the Corporate Payment System. So the report is a combination of invoices processed through multiple systems.