Government Budget 70% 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? Yes (Excel)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes(as Annual budget of the Government of the UAE published by The Ministry of Finance)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the annual budget ( http://www.mof.gov.ae/ ), however, the website does not publish the budget.

The annual budget is issued as a Federation Law which is published in the Official Gazette of the UAE. ( http://www.alittihad.ae/details.php?id=36283&y=2015 ) The Official Gazette can be purchased from the Ministry of Justice and is not available on the internet. ( https://gazette.moj.gov.ae/Introduction.aspx )

Reviewer's Comment: I was able to find the data on the website for the Ministry of Finance on its Open Data section, it is available for online for free. It is in PDF and XLS format, though not openly licensed. Data is available both as balance and as functional (departments). The balance has expenses as ongoing expenses and assets, each with sub categories. The descriptions provided are very limited though. http://www.mof.gov.ae/Ar/OpenData/Pages/default.aspx

Reviewer comments

I have review the data that was suggested by the reviewer and it is correct.