Bolton Council
Metropolitan district (E08000001)
Spending in 2025/26
Records held for 2020/21 to 2026/27, of which 1 complete financial year. 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 Bolton 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
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
What we hold
| Financial year | Months held | Records | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 3 of 12 | 7,659 | Part year held |
| 2025/26 | 12 of 12 | 32,134 | Checked against budget |
| 2024/25 | 9 of 12 | 25,214 | Part year held |
| 2020/21 | 1 of 12 | 3 | Part year held |
Check these figures against Bolton Council's own published data
Publication
This card compares the rule against the spending files this site holds. It does not check this council's own page. Where the council has published since this site last read its files, this card is out of date, and telling us is one email. Tell us we are wrong .
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 £500, the amount paragraph 28 names.
This site last read Bolton Council's files on 2026-08-30. The council's spending page .
Budget figures
What Bolton 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 Bolton Council
Budget figures and published payments describe different money over different scopes, and this site never compares one against the other.
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Every payment
About this data
- The threshold
- Bolton Council publishes payments of £500 and over. Anything below that is not in the file the council published and is not in this table, so the totals here are not the council's total spending.
- Net or gross
- Amounts are the values in the council's own file. The totals row adds them as published, so a credit note reduces the total in the same way it reduced the council's spending. The year total shown at the top of this page is £273,484,892.
- What is not in the file
- Staff pay, pensions and anything else a council pays without raising a supplier invoice. Payments below the threshold the council set. Money the council received. Any period the council has not published: this table holds 2020/21 to 2026/27. Part years held: 2020/21, 2024/25, 2026/27.
- Payments to individuals
- A council is required to withhold the name of a private individual. Those rows read "Individual (name withheld)", they are not in the supplier filter, and they are counted in every total. The name is not held here.
- Coverage
- Records held for 2020/21 to 2026/27, of which 1 complete financial year. 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.
- Source
- The council's own spending page . Last refreshed 2026-09-04.
Loading this council's payment file.
| Detail | ||
|---|---|---|
| 0 payments in 2025/26 | £0 |
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