Open data

Open data is about increased transparency, sharing the information we hold with the wider community. We aim to provide our data in open, machine readable formats that can be easily reused for a wide variety of purposes.

You are free to use these datasets, and the data we publish on data.gov.uk, in accordance with the Open Government Licence v3.0. You can also find additional open data regarding Trafford and surrounding areas, including visualisations and applications, by visiting the Trafford Data Lab website.

Supplementary information regarding some of these datasets is available on the Open data notes page.

For Trafford's population statistics and information from the census undertaken by the Office for National statistics in 2021, please visit the Trafford Data Lab census 2021 resource page.

Constitution
Workforce information
Payments to suppliers, Contract Register & Invitations To Tender (ITT)
Waste contracts
Fraud Prevention
Grants
Land and Building Assets
Parking
Public funeral information
Business Rates

Constitution

The Constitution provides the framework within which the Council conducts its business and makes decisions. It describes who is responsible for making decisions and how those decisions are taken.

Workforce information

Further information is available on our senior structure and salaries page.

Workforce information
Title	Format	Notes
Senior structure	PDF	Organisation chart including salaries of the senior staff at Trafford Council 2022/23
Senior salaries: employees	CSV	Details of renumeration, job title and responsibilities of senior employees whose salary is at least £50,000 for 2021/22. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.
Senior salaries: count	CSV	The number of employees whose renumeration is at least £50,000 in brackets of £5,000 for 2021/22. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.
Pay policy statement	WEB	Pay policy statement, including pay multiple information, for 2023/24
Pay multiple data	CSV	Dataset containing Trafford's pay multiple information for the financial years 2019/20 - 2023/24. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.
Gender Pay Gap Report	PDF	Report containing data regarding our gender pay gap for 2022
Trade Union Facility Time	WEB	Report for the year 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022 published under transparency code and trade union regulations.
Trade Union Facility Time data	CSV	Dataset containing Trafford's Trade Union Facility Time information for the financial years 2016/17 - 2021/22. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.

Payments to suppliers, Contract Register & Invitations To Tender (ITT)

Data and specific information are available from the pages in the following list, along with an additional note regarding our supplier, tendering and contracting activity.

Contract Register and Invitations to Tender - information on all contracts, framework agreements or other commissioned expenditure exceeding £5,000
Purchase Orders - information on Purchase Orders (POs) exceeding £5,000
Supplier Spend - information on expenditure exceeding £500
Payment performance - information relating to the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 - Payment Performance Contracting

Waste contracts

The Partnership agreement between Trafford Borough Council and Amey LG Limited is available to download in separate documents (volumes 1-9).

Waste contracts
Title	Format	Notes
Volume 2 of 9	PDF	Volume 2 of the partnership agreement between Trafford Borough Council and Amey LG Limited containing information regarding waste contracts required under the Transparency Code 2015

Fraud Prevention

Information relating to the council's counter fraud work.

Fraud prevention
Title	Format	Notes
Trafford Counter Fraud data	CSV	Dataset regarding Trafford's counter fraud work for the financial years 2014/15 - 2022/23. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.

Grants

Grants
Title	Format	Notes
Household Support Fund	XLSX	Breakdown of grants made through the Household Support Fund. Funding allocation 6 October 2021 – 31 March 2022.
Household Support Fund	XLSX	Breakdown of grants made through the Household Support Fund. Funding allocation 1 April 2022 – 30 September 2022.
Voluntary Sector Grants	CSV	Dataset detailing grants made to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations between January 2013 - January 2022. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset. You can also view and download information about grants made by Trafford Council and other organisations on the 360Giving GrantNav website.

Land and Building Assets

Land and Building Assets
Title	Format	Notes
Trafford Land and Building Assets	CSV	Dataset regarding Trafford Land and Building Assets, correct at 24 March 2015

Parking

The parking section of our website includes information regarding available parking in Trafford as well as parking contraventions.

Parking
Title	Format	Notes
Parking account	CSV	Dataset containing a breakdown of income and expenditure on the authority's parking account for the financial years 2014/15 - 2021/22. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.
Parking spaces (off-street)	CSV	Dataset containing information relating to off-street parking spaces (car parks) controlled by the council, correct at June 2022. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.
Parking spaces (on-street)	CSV	Dataset containing information relating to on-street parking spaces controlled by the council, correct at June 2022. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.

Public funeral information

Information relating to public health funerals provided by Trafford. Please note the accompanying public funeral Freedom of Information (FOI) exemption disclaimer regarding the information we publish.

Public funeral information
Title	Format	Notes
Public funeral information	CSV	Dataset covering the financial years 2015/16 through to 2022/23. Last updated April 2023. The accompanying metadata provides definitions for the headings used in the dataset.

Business Rates

The Business Rates Data page (within the Business Rates section of our website) contains open datasets to download for properties that have a new liable rate payer and occupied properties inc. relief properties. Both datasets have accompanying metadata providing definitions of the headings used within them.

File formats

We use the following file formats on this website:

File formats
Type	Description
CSV	Comma Separated Values
XLS/XLSX	Microsoft Excel file formats
PDF	Adobe Portable Document Format