Mr. Gavin Sheridan:

This really is my focus in this regard. Much of this information could be published routinely, perhaps on a quarterly basis, and that certainly is the practice in other jurisdictions. In the United Kingdom, the Government mandated that Government Departments publish all line item expenditure of more than £20,000 in open accessible formats and that all local authorities in the United Kingdom are obliged to publish all spending data greater than £500 per line item in open accessible formats. Our philosophy would be there is no need to set an arbitrary limit but that governments simply should publish all their spending data as a matter of course. Then, we would not be obliged to send the FOI requests. Journalists almost always rely on getting a scoop.