Burnley Borough Council

Shire district (E07000117)

Spending in 2025/26

£38,180,608 Paid out, after refunds
£37,877,210 Net of payments to other public bodies
5,804 Payments published
£500 Councils must publish payments above this

Records held for 2021/22 to 2025/26, of which 5 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 Burnley Borough 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

  • New Constructions£8.7m
  • Agency & Contracted Services£8.3m
  • Supplies & Services£5.2m
  • STR - Streetscene£2.5m
  • Grants£2.1m
  • Premises Related Expenses£1.9m
  • L - Street Scene£1.6m
  • GOV - Governance Law Prop Regn£1.1m

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£2.8m
  • May 2025£2.7m
  • Jun 2025£3.7m
  • Jul 2025£3.9m
  • Aug 2025£3.0m
  • Sep 2025£2.8m
  • Oct 2025£2.9m
  • Nov 2025£2.7m
  • Dec 2025£2.5m
  • Jan 2026£2.6m
  • Feb 2026£1.9m
  • Mar 2026£5.6m

109 payments carry no date and cannot be placed in a month, so these months add up to slightly less than the total above.

What we hold

Spending records held for each financial year, and whether each year reconciles
Financial yearMonths heldRecordsStatus
2025/2612 of 126,718Checked against budget
2024/2512 of 126,669Reconciled
2023/2412 of 126,128Reconciled
2022/2312 of 125,508Reconciled
2021/2212 of 126,589Reconciled

Check these figures against Burnley Borough 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: 2026-03-25

Latest payment held here: 2026-03-25. Under paragraph 27 a payment dated 2026-03-25 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 Burnley Borough Council's files on 2026-08-30. The council's spending page .

How every council stands against the quarterly rule

Budget figures

What Burnley Borough 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 Burnley Borough Council

Budget figures and published payments describe different money over different scopes, and this site never compares one against the other.

Councils in the same place

Burnley Borough Council is a district council. The upper-tier services in the same area, social care, schools and roads, are run by Lancashire County Council, which keeps separate accounts. The two are never added together on this site.

The same place on the sister sites

Every payment

About this data
The threshold
Burnley Borough 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 £38,180,608.
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 2021/22 to 2025/26.
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.
Rows without a date
109 rows in the latest year have no usable date in the council's file. They are in the table and in the totals, and a date filter will not find them.
Coverage
Records held for 2021/22 to 2025/26, of which 5 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.
Source
The council's own spending page . Last refreshed 2026-09-03.

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Detail
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