Central governments departments and agencies – data requirements

The data requirements for the 2012/13 NFI exercise are set out in the table below – ‘Data requirements England – central government participants’. There are a number of points to note in relation to this exercise:

• The requirements of the code of data matching practice 2008 in relation to fair processing notices should be adhered to. Liaise with your own Data Protection Officer or person with equivalent responsibility, if you require any clarification.
• The data submission section provides details on how to upload data securely. This is the only acceptable method.
• Experience from previous NFI exercises has shown that Trade Creditors standing and payments history data is a complicated specification so extreme care should be taken when extracting the data otherwise the quality of the output can be severely affected.

Data requirements England – Central government departments and agencies participants

There is a separate data specification for each data set collected for the National Fraud Initiative. These specifications can be accessed from the detailed data specifications table.

Body	Dataset
Central government departments and agencies	Payroll Trade creditors’ payment history and Trade creditors’ standing data