Issue guide
This issue tracks public spending, suppliers, accommodation payments, grants and the limits of published financial data.
Official accounts and payment files show substantial categories of expenditure, but publication thresholds, departmental boundaries and missing outcome measures prevent a single complete cost figure.
Published payments above a threshold are not a full programme cost and should not be added across incompatible periods without reconciliation. Where a needed dataset is absent, the gap is stated rather than filled with an assumption.