AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
URLs to services provided by local authorities

This dataset contains a list of services provided by local councils (‘local authorities’) and links to the corresponding pages on local council websites. It’s maintained and owned by the Government Digital Service (GDS).

Note that the historical data contains all links stored by GOV.UK until 6th March 2024. After this point, the local authorities services data will only contain data for services that are present on gov.uk itself. That data updates daily, the historical data is a snapshot only.

The dataset covers England and Wales and contains some data for Scotland. It will cover Northern Ireland in the future. 

GOV.UK uses the links to direct users to [local council services](http://standards.esd.org.uk/?uri=list%2FenglishAndWelshServices&tab=details), for example [pay your council tax](https://www.gov.uk/pay-council-tax).

It replaces the dataset that was previously available on Local Directgov.

[Let us know](mailto:local-direct-admin@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk) if you're using this data, as we're keen to understand your needs.

Organization: Government Digital Service
FCA: Whistleblowing quarterly data 2023 Q3

The data shows the number of new whistleblowing reports the FCA received between July and September 2023 and how the information was received.

The FCA assess every whistleblowing case it receives that falls within the FCA's remit, to inform its work and help it identify actual or potential harm. This could be harm to consumers, to markets, to the UK economy or to wider society.

The Whistleblowing team receives reports by telephone, email, its online reporting form, and post. In 2023 Q3 (July-September), the FCA received 280 new whistleblowing reports, containing 794 allegations in total.

Organization: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
FCA: Whistleblowing quarterly data 2023 Q4

The data shows the number of new whistleblowing reports the FCA received between October and December 2023 and how the information was received.

The FCA assess every whistleblowing case it receives that falls within the FCA's remit, to inform its work and help it identify actual or potential harm. This could be harm to consumers, to markets, to the UK economy or to wider society.

The Whistleblowing team receives reports by telephone, email, its online reporting form, and post. In 2023 Q4 (October-December), the FCA received 249 new whistleblowing reports, containing 649 allegations in total.

Organization: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Employment Land Supply - South Ayrshire

The employment land supply is intended to meet the requirements of Scottish Planning Policy, which states (at paragraph 46) that: -
“Planning authorities should ensure there is a range and choice of marketable sites and locations for businesses allocated in development plans, including opportunities for mixed use development, to meet anticipated requirements and a variety of size and quality requirements”.

Tags: Economy, Employment, Environment, Land use, Planning
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Housing Land Supply - South Ayrshire

Boundaries of South Ayrshire land supply sites for housing with a capacity for 4 or more homes.  The South Ayrshire Land Supply sites were agreed following an audit meeting between South Ayrshire Council as local planning authority and Homes for Scotland as representatives of the house building industry.  The audit meets the requirements of Scottish Planning Policy to monitor the minimum 5-year effective land supply.

Tags: Economy, Environment, Housing, Land use, Planning
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Green belt - South Ayrshire

Boundaries for designated greenbelts as defined in the South Ayrshire Local Development Plan.  The greenbelt areas provide an effective method of:
•	protecting the operational needs of Prestwick Airport.
•	managing the development pressures placed on land around Ayr, Prestwick and Troon in terms of maintaining the identity of towns and preventing coalescence; 
•	maintaining the landscape setting of settlements; 
•	providing recreational opportunities; 
•	and protecting good quality agricultural land.

Tags: Greenbelt, Land use, Planning
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Website Statistics (Archived)

** Note: This dataset has been archived and is no longer being updated due to a change in analytics platform. You can find the new dataset relating to Website Statistics in the following link; https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/website-statistics **

This Website Statistics dataset has three resources showing usage of the Lincolnshire Open Data website.  Web analytics terms used in each resource are defined in their accompanying Metadata file.

- **Website Usage Statistics:**  This document shows a statistical summary of usage of the Lincolnshire Open Data site for the latest calendar year.

- **Website Statistics Summary:**  This dataset shows a website statistics summary for the Lincolnshire Open Data site for the latest calendar year.

- **Webpage Statistics:** This dataset shows statistics for individual Webpages on the Lincolnshire Open Data site by calendar year.

    *Note: The resources above show only UK users, and exclude API calls (automated requests for datasets).*

For further information, please contact the [Lincolnshire County Council Open Data team](mailto:opendata@lincolnshire.gov.uk).

Tags: transparency, website statistics
Organization: Lincolnshire County Council
Water abstraction data sets

This series is an amalgamation of all the water abstraction data sets previously held on Data.Gov.UK (DGUK), thus consolidating all abstraction statistical data into one location on DGUK. Data source is the Environment Agency (EA). The record includes the following datasets:

Abstraction licences in force and new licences determined 2000-2010

The consumption of water abstracted from non-tidal surface and groundwater in England and Wales has fallen from an estimated 41.2 thousand megalitres/day in 2000 to 34 thousand megalitres/day in 2010. Latest figures for 2010 show a very slight increase compared to 2009. A megalitre is one million litres.

This publication covers the abstraction of water from non tidal, surface water and groundwater in England and Wales (from 2015 onwards just England).

Water is a vital resource that needs to be managed carefully to ensure that people have access to affordable and safe drinking water and sanitation. Furthermore, to ensure that the needs of industry are met, without depleting water resources or damaging ecosystems.

Status:  Official Statistic

Total estimated abstractions and licensed abstractions from all sources by purpose, England and Wales (2000-2010)

Estimated abstractions from groundwaters by purpose and Environment Agency region:  2000 - 2010

Estimated abstractions from non-tidal surface waters by purpose and Environment Agency region:  2000-2010

Estimated abstractions from tidal waters by purpose and Environment Agency region:  2000 - 2010

Estimated licensed and actual abstractions from all surface and groundwater sources by purpose: 2000-2010

Number of abstraction licences in force by purpose: England and Wales (2010)

Number of abstraction licences in force by purpose: Environment Agency regional charge area (2012 and 2015)

Estimated abstractions from all sources except tidal by purpose and Environment Agency regional charge area:  2000 - 2015



Organization: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Emergency Hospital Admissions for Hip Fractures (age 65 and over)

This dataset shows Emergency Hospital Admissions for fractured neck of femur, for persons Age 65 and over by Gender.

The data source (Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)) has indicated the following aspects in its commentary.  Firstly, hip fracture is a debilitating condition - only one in three sufferers return to their former levels of independence, and one in three ends up leaving their own home and moving to long-term care.  Hip fractures are almost as common and as costly to public services as strokes.  Mortality from hip fracture is high - about one in ten people with a hip fracture die within a month, and about one in three die within a year.

Within the 65 and over age group there are differences in hip fracture rates by Age and Gender.  For data breakouts and more information please see the source link. 

Directly Age-Standardised Rates (DASR) are shown in the data (where numbers are sufficient) so that rates can be directly compared between areas. The DASR calculation applies Age-specific rates to a Standard European population to cancel out possible effects on crude rates due to different age structures among populations, thus enabling direct comparisons of rates.

Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) indicator 4.14i (41401-E13).  This data is updated annually.


Tags: health, hip fractures, hospital admissions, older people
Organization: Lincolnshire County Council
Tower of London WHS Local Setting Area

World Heritage Site Local Setting Area polygon layer records the local setting area of the Tower of London as defined by Historic Royal Palaces as part of the World Heritage Site Management Plan (2007). This policy area is relevant to City Plan 2036 Strategic Policy S11: Historic Environment and Strategic Policy S13: Protected Views and Local Plan 2015 Historic Environment Policy CS12 and Protected Views Policy CS13. Also see Tower of London Local Setting Study for more information.Name - Name of the Policy Area.

Tags: CS12, CS13, City of London, Core Strategy, Historic Environment, Local Plan, Local Setting, Local Setting Area, Protected Views, Tower of London, World Heritage Site
Organization: City of London
Website Statistics

This Website Statistics dataset has three resources showing usage of the Lincolnshire Open Data website.  Web analytics terms used in each resource are defined in their accompanying Metadata file.

**Please Note:** due to a change in Analytics platform and accompanying metrics, the current files do not contain a full years data. The files will be updated again in January 2025 with 2024-2025 data.

The previous dataset containing Web Analytics has been archived and can be found in the following link; https://lincolnshire.ckan.io/dataset/website-statistics-archived

- **Website Usage Statistics:**  This document shows a statistical summary of usage of the Lincolnshire Open Data site for the latest calendar year.

- **Website Statistics Summary:**  This dataset shows a website statistics summary for the Lincolnshire Open Data site for the latest calendar year.

- **Webpage Statistics:** This dataset shows statistics for individual Webpages on the Lincolnshire Open Data site by calendar year.

*Note: The resources above exclude API calls (automated requests for datasets).*

These Website Statistics resources are updated annually in February by the [Lincolnshire County Council Open Data team](mailto:opendata@lincolnshire.gov.uk).

Tags: transparency, website statistics
Organization: Lincolnshire County Council
FCA: Mortgage lending statistics - Q4 2023 - March 2024

The FCA and the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) both have responsibility for the regulation of mortgage lenders and administrators. They jointly publish the mortgage lending statistics every quarter.

Since the beginning of 2007, around 340 regulated mortgage lenders and administrators have been required to submit a Mortgage Lending and Administration Return (MLAR) each quarter, providing data on their mortgage lending activities.

##Latest findings
* The outstanding value of all residential mortgage loans decreased by 0.1% from the previous quarter to £1,657.6 billion, and was 1.1% lower than a year earlier.
 
* The value of gross mortgage advances decreased by 13.4% from the previous quarter to £54.0 billion, and was 33.8% lower than a year earlier.
 
* The value of new mortgage commitments (lending agreed to be advanced in the coming months) decreased by 6.6% from the previous quarter to £46.0 billion, and was 21.2% lower than a year earlier. If the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic is excluded, this was the lowest observed since 2013 Q1.

Organization: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
The Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) Jan to December 2022

The data documents FLS level compliance with defined clinical standards for secondary fracture prevention. Details of these standards can be found in the FLS-DB audit report. The audit was initiated to measure primarily against NICE technology assessments and guidance on osteoporosis, and the Royal Osteoporosis Society clinical standards for FLSs.

Data was extracted from the FLS database in June

Organization: Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
2000 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1 Charles Darwin cruise 119 (1999) - Environmental sampling programme, final data report. ERT Report ERTSL 00/215R00/215 (Faroe Shetland Channel)

This data report contains the results of the analysis of sediment samples collected by Geotek on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) as part of the Strategic Environment Assessment SEA1 (White Zone) environmental sampling programme conducted from RRS Charles Darwin in summer 1999 (cruise 119C leg 2). The analyses undertaken includes total organic carbon and total organic nitrogen, particle size distribution (including silt, clay, silt/clay, carbonate and organic matter content), total and aliphatic hydrocarbon content); 2 to 6 ring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) content and metal oxides and heavy metal content.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1 Charles Darwin cruise 123 (2000) -  Environmental sampling survey.  Data analysis report: total organic carbon/nitrogen, sediment hydrocarbons.  ERT Report R00/215 (Faroe Shetland Channel)

As part of Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1, sediment samples were collected at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) from Charles Darwin between July and September 2000. Samples for a number of chemical and biological analyses were collected. The analysis undertaken on the sediment samples collected were: total organic carbon and total organic nitrogen; total hydrocarbon and n-alkane content; and 2 to 6 ring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) content. Excel files containing the data are also available.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1 Environmental Survey 2000 - Sample analysis data report: hydrocarbons, total organic carbon/nitrogen (Faroe Shetland Channel)

Sediment samples were collected during the Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1 (White Zone) Environmental Survey in 2000 at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). This data report collates all the results generated by Gardline Survey Limited. The analysis undertaken on the sediment samples were: total organic carbon and total organic nitrogen; total hydrocarbon and n-alkane content and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) content.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1. Laboratory report on grain size analysis of seabed samples (Faroe Shetland Channel)

This report pertains to samples collected for the UK Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) as part of Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1 (White Zone) from west of the Shetland Islands by Geotek Ltd from the RRS Charles Darwin during the summer of 2000. This report is the product of statistical analyses on grain size data of 109 seabed samples.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2000 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1. Biological analysis for samples from Charles Darwin Cruise 123 (Faroe Shetland Channel)

As part of Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1, sediment samples were collected from the area designated as the White Zone at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as part of its sea-going research activities during summer 2000. The objective of the cruise was to provide a description of the current state of the seabed in the survey area, while providing baseline environmental data and identifying larger-scale environmental patterns and processes. The survey programme was conducted from Charles Darwin between July and September 2000, with samples for a number of chemical and biological analyses being collected. An Excel file containing detail of species abundance is available.

Tags: Habitats and biotopes, Species distribution
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2000 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1. Heavy metals analysis for samples from Charles Darwin Cruise 123 (Faroe Shetland Channel)

As part of Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA1, sediment samples were collected at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) a survey programme was conducted from the NERC Royal Research Ship (RRS) Charles Darwin between July and September 2000, with samples for a number of chemical and biological analyses being collected.  An Excel file containing details of heavy metal analysis is available.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Technical report - Pockmarks in the UK sector of the North Sea

This report is a contribution to Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) and it reviews the distribution and character of pockmarks - shallow seabed depressions - which are common in the area of the North Sea to the north-east of Scotland known as the Fladen Ground. Pockmarks are believed to be produced by the escape of fluids (gas or water, but generally gas in the North Sea) from the seafloor and are found in areas where the seabed sediments are soft, silty clays. Processes of pockmark formation, their geometry, age and distribution, and the sources of gas in the underlying geological strata are discussed. While the great majority of pockmarks are inactive at the present time, a few are observed to be actively seeping gas.

In order to provide a stronger basis upon which the significance of pockmarks within mature oil and gas provinces of the North Sea might be assessed, the Department of Trade and Industry commissioned the acquisition of new data directed towards increasing the scientific understanding of sandbanks and pockmarks as part of the SEA2 process. The survey vessel Kommandor Jack was chartered in April 2001 and, among other operations, conducted high-resolution geophysical surveys of pockmarks in the Fladen Ground. Preliminary results from that operation are included in this report.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Technical report - Human activities in the North Sea

This report is a contribution to Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) and it considers human activities in the North Sea which might have an impact on, or themselves be affected by, further oil and gas developments in the SEA2 areas. The SEA2 areas cover the Northern North Sea (NNS), the Central North Sea (CNS) and the Southern North Sea (SNS). The activities include shipping, energy (both existing oil and gas developments and renewable energy), telecommunications, military activities, waste disposal, dredging and aggregate extraction, marine archaeological sites and wrecks. Commercial fishing is the subject of a separate report.

Tags: Energy resources
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Environmental Sampling Survey, North Sea, May 2001 Data Report ERTSL 637 - Sediment hydrocarbons and metals analyses

Sediment samples were collected from selected areas of the southern North Sea as part of the ongoing Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA2). The aim of the survey was to describe the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of a range of offshore sandbanks and pockmarks (more than 12 km from the coast). The survey focused on three main study areas in the southern North Sea: the Dogger Bank study area; the South Fladen Pockmark study area and a major sand bank area off the coasts of Norfolk and Lincolnshire. This report presents the following sediment data: Total hydrocarbon and n-alkane concentrations; 2 to 6 ring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) content; selected metals concentrations.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2002 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Environmental Sampling survey, North Sea, May and June 2001 Macrofaunal data report for the South Fladen, North Sea pockmark study area ERT report 637 R002

This report presents all data relevant to the macrofaunal analysis from South Fladen Pockmark study area of the North Sea as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 conducted in May (Phase I) and June 2001 (Phase II). The aim of the survey was to document the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of a range of offshore sandbanks and pockmarks (more than 12 km from the coast) to assess their current environmental status, variability and the relative importance of the fauna occurring within these habitats. Excel files of the data are also available.

Tags: Geology, Habitats and biotopes, Species distribution
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2002 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Laboratory report. Grain size analyses sea bed sediments collected in North Sea, 2001. BGS Tech Note CR/01/193

This report is the product of the laboratory analyses carried out on sediments collected on the MV Kommandor Jack during the summer or 2001 as part of Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2. The results of the analyses include tables and curves from the samples collected from the southern North Sea, the associated distribution curves, results of the analyses of the fine-grained samples collected from the northern North Sea, and the results of the Loss on Ignition analysis. An Excel data file is also available.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)
2003 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Sediment trace and heavy metals analyses of seabed sediments acquired in the Central and Southern North Sea, May/June 2001. ERT report 637/R005

As part of the Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 a survey was undertaken in May/June 2001 for areas in the central and southern North Sea. This report summarises the sediment trace and heavy metal data generated from the analyses of selected samples from the three main study areas: the major sandbanks off the coast of Norfolk and Lincolnshire in the southern North Sea (SNS); the Dogger Bank in the SNS; and the pockmarks in the Fladen Ground vicinity of the central North Sea.

Tags: Geology
Organization: British Geological Survey (BGS)