Public money: what the oversight institutions publish

Method

• Each PDF is downloaded from the institution’s own site (one request per second, TLS verified) and kept under its SHA-256, with the date the institution declares, the HTTP headers and the file’s metadata.
• On time: published no later than the expected date. Without a verified legal deadline, the expected date is the median lag of the same series’ earlier publications, plus 30 days.
• In the institution’s favour: a month-precision date counts as the first day of the month; a report covering several years is timed from the end of the last.
• Missing period: a year never covered although its expected date has passed. Silent change: the same address serving different content, without a new address.
• The register of publication obligations is open data; every result cites the register by its fingerprint and every publication by the URL and SHA-256 of its files.

Boundaries

• No indicator concerns a natural person; results are published per institution only.
• A late publication is a fact about a document, not a fault: it may have legitimate causes, which the institution can set out.
• Sites that refuse automated access (the public procurement portal, the Treasury) are not worked around.
• Public procurement is not covered yet: the access plan is under review.

Timeline and right of reply

1. Each institution receives its provisional results, publication by publication, with fingerprints.
2. Replies accepted until 25 Nov 2026: a document missing from the archive, a different publication date, an explanation published with the result.
3. Publication on 30 Nov 2026. A reply under review holds that result until a reasoned decision.

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