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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UK Government spend data: ● Cab Office, Apr 2010 - Aug 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (3.8 MB XLSX) ● DfE, Apr 2010 - Jun 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (56.6 MB zipped CSV) ● DESNZ, Aug 2023 - Dec 2025 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (0.9 MB XLSX) #publicspending #opengov #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

UK Parliament report: Procedure Committee proposes overhaul of the Written Parliamentary Questions system committees.parliament.uk/committee/12... WPQs questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... #FOI #opengov

WPQs system vs Freedom of Information requests: As WPQs serve the vital constitutional function of government accountability to Parliament, they must be treated by the government with at least equal seriousness to FOI requests. The Committee recommends that the Leader of the House reinforce with departments that they must never withhold from a WPQ response information that is releasable under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 — and indeed should sometimes go further in WPQ responses than is required under that Act, given the primacy of the constitutional principle of government accountability to Parliament.

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

UK Cabinet Office spend data, transactions over £25,000, April 2010 - July 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (3.8 MB XLSX) #publicspending #opengov #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) spend data April 2010 - June 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (50.5 MB zipped XLSX) Transactions over £250, until September 2024 when UK Labour increased the publication threshold to £25,000 #publicspending #opengov #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Outrage as Westminster staff names removed from transparency register www.thenational.scot/news/2645440... Register of Interests of Members' Staff (latest) www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-an... vs Published in 2026 (previous) www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-an... #FOI #opengov #opendata #securitytheatre

THE MOVE to redact the names of 2000 Westminster staff from an official transparency register had been met with outrage by journalists.

The former system, in place since 1993 until this week, saw MP’s staffers names being recorded on a regularly updated document alongside any financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

But a proposal by the House of Commons standards committee to redact the names has now been implemented after evidence sessions held in private with staff unions – citing in large part concerns over the safety of those working for MPs.

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) spend data April 2010 - May 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (50.4 MB zipped XLSX) Transactions over £250, until September 2024 when UK Labour increased the publication threshold to £25,000 #publicspending #opengov #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My submission was a call for open addresses www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... I may have given Cabinet Office the impression that my Datadaptive project is an organisation. In the unlikely event I'm asked to "co-lead" anything I will have to get a dog or a goldfish #opengov #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Seventh UK National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP7): Analysis of initial evidence gathering www.gov.uk/government/c... 78 individual submissions comprising 139 ideas #Opendata is the second most popular sub-theme (close behind "public participation") #opengov #opengovuk

Screenshot showing the "data asset" and "open data" themes from a table headed "Access to information and digital governance – CSSU analysis of public all for evidence"

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) spend data, transactions over £25,000, April 2010 - June 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (1.5 MB XLSX) #publicspending #opengov #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

UK Government spend data: ● Cabinet Office, Apr 2010 - Jun 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (3.7 MB XLSX) ● DfE, Apr 2010 - Apr 2026 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (55.8 MB zip CSV) ● DSIT, Aug 2023 - Sep 2025 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (0.3 MB XLSX) #publicspending #opengov #opendata

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Inquiry finds MoD Afghan data breach was foreseeable failure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Report from the UK House of Commons Defence Committee committees.parliament.uk/work/9327/af... #Afghandatabreach #dataprotection #opengov

99. The government's caution also affected audit and regulatory scrutiny. For two years it failed to serve the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff at the National Audit Office so that they could exercise their audit responsibilities and work with the MOD to ensure the accounts fairly represented the financial consequences of the government's commitments under the injunction. The NAO has staff with high security clearance who scrutinise some of the most sensitive areas of MOD activity, including the Defence Nuclear Enterprise. The Information Commissioner's Office was also constrained, for different reasons: it lacked the clearances and systems needed to conduct a fully independent investigation into highly classified material.98 These issues show why exceptional secrecy requires planned mechanisms for controlled democratic, audit and regulatory challenge, not reliance on secrecy alone.

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