Government grants register
This page contains data and reports on government grant spending by financial year.
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The government puts transparency and accountability at the heart of how it does business, and publishing data is key to this.
The Cabinet Office is continuing to help departments, to ensure that grant making, across government, is more efficient and effective.
The government has developed a database, the Government Grants Information System (GGIS), to capture information about grant funding across the whole of government.
The insight obtained from GGIS data helps grant managers improve the effectiveness of their grant making. It ensures greater scrutiny by assisting with the identification of areas of potential inefficiency, or fraud, throughout the grant making process.
All departments have made good progress in uploading grants data onto the GGIS, which currently contains information on more than £113bn of government grants for the financial year 2017/18.
In autumn 2017, grants data at ‘award level’ for two departments (Ministry of Justice and Department for Transport) was published on GOV.UK for the first time.
Since that publication, the Cabinet Office has continued to work with departments to capture more granular data on grant awards. This has enabled us to publish awards-level data for the financial year 2017/18 for all 17 central government departments. This encompasses formula and general grants at scheme level, and general grants at awards level.*
*Grants definitions can be found in the Government Grants Definitions document.
The GGIS dataset represents the most comprehensive picture of the government grants landscape currently available.
The Government Functional Standards for General Grants were published in December 2016, supported by Cabinet Office guidance. The standards provide the framework for grants administration, underpinned by the guidance in Managing Public Money. Standard 2 requires departments enter details of their grants schemes and awards on the GGIS database.