Blackpool Council

Unitary authority (E06000009)

Spending in 2025/26

£1,040,706,963 Paid out, after refunds
£742,982,816 Net of payments to other public bodies
105,586 Payments published
£250 Councils must publish payments above this

Records held for 2019/20 to 2025/26, of which 6 complete financial years. Figures shown are for 2025/26, the most recent year held in full. Its total is checked against this council's published revenue account budget, because the outturn return for that year is not due for about another two years. The check is made after money this body passes to other councils, police and fire authorities, and to central government as the business rates share, has been taken out: a precept, a levy or a rates share is collected on another authority's behalf rather than spent here. Payments to the health service, to colleges, to pension funds and to HM Revenue and Customs are not taken out, because those are things this body bought or owed. Both figures are shown.

This covers what Blackpool Council publishes above its threshold, which is a part of what it spends, not all of it. Wages and payments below the threshold are not in it.

Largest suppliers in 2025/26

Payments to named individuals are counted in the total above but never listed here. A linked supplier has a cross council page showing what every council this site holds published about paying it, which is a lower bound and never a total.

Largest spending categories in 2025/26

  • Interest Payable Temporary Loan£438.4m
  • Private Contractors£102.9m
  • FH0001£37.0m
  • Domiciliary Care£27.1m
  • Residential Homes£25.1m
  • Major Contractual Works£24.2m
  • Retention Monies - Capital£22.9m
  • Transfer Payments - General£21.6m

Categories are the council's own labels, and the largest few only. They do not add up to the total.

Month by month in 2025/26

  • Apr 2025£90.5m
  • May 2025£112.1m
  • Jun 2025£81.0m
  • Jul 2025£99.0m
  • Aug 2025£75.0m
  • Sep 2025£115.2m
  • Oct 2025£70.8m
  • Nov 2025£106.3m
  • Dec 2025£73.0m
  • Jan 2026£95.8m
  • Feb 2026£84.4m
  • Mar 2026£37.4m

What we hold

Spending records held for each financial year, and whether each year reconciles
Financial yearMonths heldRecordsStatus
2025/2612 of 12105,586Checked against budget
2024/2512 of 12101,657Reconciled
2023/247 of 1253,989Part year held
2022/2312 of 1299,275Reconciled
2021/2212 of 1296,324Reconciled
2020/2112 of 12114,942No outturn figure held for that year
2019/2012 of 1272,631No outturn figure held for that year

Check these figures against Blackpool Council's own published data

Publication

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Behind by one quarter, as held here Latest payment held here: 2026-03-31

Latest payment held here: 2026-03-31. Under paragraph 27 a payment dated 2026-03-31 should have been published by 2026-04-30. We have not confirmed whether the council has published since we last read its files.

Part 2 of the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires spending over £500 to be published quarterly, and not later than one month after the quarter it covers. This council publishes payments over £250, which is below the £500 paragraph 28 requires.

This site last read Blackpool Council's files on 2026-08-30. The council's spending page .

How every council stands against the quarterly rule

Budget figures

What Blackpool Council reported to central government: net revenue expenditure over time, the split by service, where the money came from, its own Band D element and its reserves.

Budget figures for Blackpool Council

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Every payment

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