Context infrastructure

Background council models, not public route-specific spending pages.

These routes stay in the repo because they are useful research infrastructure, but they are `context only`. Their figures should not be treated as route-specific spend unless specific rows are later tied to asylum accommodation, refugee resettlement, or another named scheme.

Live bodies

context only county North West England live

Lancashire County Council

Canonical ingestion from the upstream Lancashire transparency pack. This is background context infrastructure, not route-specific published spend.

Transactions 753,220 20 monthly files

Spend corpus £3.6bn 2024-04-02 to 2025-12-31

Mapping coverage 59.5% 2,563 unmapped department labels

high

Only 59.5% of spend in the upstream mapping layer is assigned to a budget category.

medium

The upstream mapping layer total differs from the canonical transaction corpus by GBP 127,807,027.84.

note

The upstream budget summary publishes net current expenditure as zero; keep that field separate from other headline measures.