Government Budget 45% open

What data is expected?

National government budget at a high level. This category is looking at budgets, or the planned government expenditure for the upcoming year, and not the actual expenditure. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Planned budget divided by government department and sub-department
• Updated once a year.
• The budget should include descriptions regarding the different budget sections.

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
•   Available in bulk? No
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes(as DRAFT MEDIUM TERM FINANCIAL PLAN 2016-2019 published by Treasury and Resources)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

The annual business plans are described at http://www.gov.je/government/planningperformance/strategicplanning/pages/statesannualbusinessplan.aspx

The link to the data is to the plan for 2016-2019, with only 2016 broken down in detail.

The web page also provides access to the 2013-2015 plan.

The copyright catchall and the terms and conditions do not encourage commercial and non-commercial reuse at present but the data may become available under an open licence in 2016 as part of an open data strategy.

Reviewer comments

I have checked the data and it is correct.