The information is based on payment date and published in monthly comma delimited files. Each record is made up of standard fields which are used across all departments.

These are:

• department family – The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• entity – The Intellectual Property Office
• date – payment date
• expense type – type of expenditure from our the accounting system
• expense area – the area of the Office paying for the expense
• supplier – the supplier of the goods or services
• transaction number – a reference to identify the transaction
• amount – the amount in pounds
• VAT registration number – supplier number not published

IPO payments: 2020
IPO payments: 2021
IPO payments: 2022
IPO payments: 2023
IPO payments: 2024

Pre-2014 payment datasets are available from The National Archives.