Public spending & reporting

COINS quality assurance

15 December 2011

Budgeting (Plans and Outturn) and Forecast Outturn Data

The data on COINS are quality-assured and complete at the level at which they are required for the following purposes:

fiscal management;
operational publications (e.g. Main and Supplementary Estimates); and
statistical publications (e.g. Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, the joint ONS/Treasury Public Sector Finances statistical bulletin and the National Accounts).

Detailed data below the level of publication are not quality assured by the Treasury. Individual departments can to some extent choose the level of granularity at which they report.

Data may therefore appear incomplete and may not be comparable across departments.

For enquires please contact statistics-enquiries@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk

Whole of Government Accounts (Audited Outturn)

The WGA data on COINS are fully audited. They are audited at the entity level by the relevant audit body and at a consolidated level by the National Audit Office.

For enquiries please contact wga_team@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk