Every two months we publish a list of the payments that we have made to the various companies, bodies and individuals who have supplied the Council with the goods and services we need to operate and to enable us to continue to provide an excellent service to everyone who lives in, works in or visits Dorchester.
This information has always been available on request but we have decided to publish it on our website in response to a request from the Government for all Councils to do so. Indeed, we are going further than the Government asked us to because we are publishing details of all payments we make, not just those over £500, although the lists do not include salaries paid to staff or minor purchases which are made out of petty cash.
We include links to a total of six lists, covering a rolling calendar year -
If you would like to know more about an individual payment please contact our finance people on finance@dorchester-tc.gov.uk. Include as much detail as you can about the item you are interested in and we shall do our best to reply within 7 working days, although we do not promise to do so. We shall, though, always respond within the timescales laid down in the Freedom of Information Act.
We understand that some people might want to analyse the payments we make in depth so the files below are in CSV format which can be opened and processed by a variety of applications. Please note that these files are intended for analysis and are not in a printer-friendly format - if you want printed lists you should use the links higher up this page.
Payments to suppliers 2011 (CSV format)