Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
Metropolitan district (E08000037)
Spending in 2025/26
Records held for 2019/20 to 2025/26, of which 3 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.
Refunds and credit notes worth £137,669,609 are taken off that figure. The value of every payment this council published, counting a refund by its size rather than subtracting it, was £540,684,016.
This covers what Gateshead Metropolitan 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 12 of 12 | 420,435 | Checked against budget |
| 2024/25 | 11 of 12 | 361,593 | Part year held |
| 2023/24 | 12 of 12 | 310,518 | Reconciled |
| 2022/23 | 12 of 12 | 169,982 | Reconciled |
| 2021/22 | 11 of 12 | 136,378 | Part year held |
| 2020/21 | 11 of 12 | 74,791 | Part year held |
| 2019/20 | 9 of 12 | 59,841 | Part year held |
Check these figures against Gateshead Metropolitan Borough 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 £500, the amount paragraph 28 names.
This site last read Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council's files on 2026-08-30. The council's spending page .
Budget figures
What Gateshead Metropolitan 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 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
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Every payment
Every payment this council published will appear here.
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