Open data is about making non-personal information freely available to everyone.
The benefits are:
- transparency and accountability - publishing the information we use
- public service improvement - helping you to challenge our decisions
- generating economic growth - allowing small and large businesses to use the data
- helping democracy - giving you information to engage in the political process
By law councils must publish information under the government's transparency agenda website.
Published data
You can re-use the information freely under the same terms as data.gov.uk.
| Data | Location | Formats |
|---|---|---|
| Business plan | Our Business Plan page contains the latest four-year plan document, bringing together financial and service planning to give a detailed picture of how we will operate | HTML, PDF |
| Constitution | The constitution sets out how the council operates, how decisions are made and the procedures which are followed to ensure that these are efficient, transparent and accountable to local people | |
| Contracts | The London Tenders Portal website provides access to our contracts and tender documents. | HTML |
| Council and committee meetings | Agendas, reports and minutes of council and committee meetings. | |
| Councillors' allowances and expenses | A list of all allowances and expenses we pay councillors in recent years | HTML, PDF |
| Councillors' attendance | The record of each councillors' attendance at council meetings from November 2013 | HTML |
| Election results | Election and referendum results are on the Election results page | HTML, PDF |
| Finance | The Finance page holds our accounts, budgets and other financial information. | DOC, PDF |
| Fraud | Statistics regarding Counter-fraud work in 2018 | |
| Gender Pay Gap and Annual Equalities in Employment Report | HTML | |
| Government Procurement Card Transactions, monthly reports | XLS | |
| Organisation chart | The charts showing the top-level structure of the council are on the senior employees' salaries page. | |
| Parking account | A breakdown of parking income and expenditure | CSV, XLS, PDF |
| Parking spaces (off-street) | The number of off-street parking places controlled by the Council. | CSV, XLS |
| Parking spaces (on-street) | A list of on-street parking spaces and permits issued for those spaces. | CSV, XLS |
| Pay multiple | The pay multiple is 5:1 (31 March 2024). This is the ratio between the highest paid salary (£208,203) and the median average salary of the whole authority's workforce (£39,264). | -- |
| Performance | Reports of our performance against our key performance indicators are on the Performance monitoring page. | DOC, XLS, PDF |
| Plans and policies | A list of our major plans and policies, including relevant links and contact details. | PDF, HTML |
| Procurement card transactions | A list of the transactions made using procurement cards during 2015-16 | CSV |
| Property register | The list of council properties. | CSV, XLS |
| Senior employees' job descriptions | The job descriptions of senior employees. | |
| Senior employees' salaries | A list of the salaries of senior employees. | XLS |
| Social housing asset value | There is no information to publish here, as the housing association Merton, London | Clarion (myclarionhousing.com) owns and manages the housing assets. | -- |
| Spending over £500 | A list of all our spending items over £500 | CSV |
| Voluntary and community sector funding | Reports produced annually which set out the funding from the council to voluntary, community and faith organisations. | |
| Trade union time | Central Function Facility Time 22-23 Education Function Facility Time 22-23 | DOCX |
| Waste collection contract | This item was a one-off specific requirement of the Local Government Transparency Code. At that time the service was carried out in-house, so no contract existed. | -- |
Contact us
Freedom of Information Officer
Merton Council
Civic Centre
London Road
Morden
SM4 5DX
Telephone: 020 8545 4634
Email: foi@merton.gov.uk