Councils

Sefton Council

Metropolitan district in Merseyside, North West (E08000014)

Spending in 2025/26

£374,209,712 Paid out, after refunds
£369,516,019 Net of payments to other public bodies
75,055 Payments published
£500 Councils must publish payments above this

Records held for 2005/06 to 2026/27, of which 2 complete financial years. Figures shown are for 2025/26, the most recent year held in full.

How this figure was checked

Its total is checked against this council's published revenue account budget. 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 £18,958,159 are taken off that figure. The value of every payment this council published, counting a refund by its size rather than subtracting it, was £393,167,872.

What Sefton Council publishes above its threshold is a part of what it spends, not all of it. Wages and payments below the threshold are not in it.

Who Sefton Council paid in 2025/26

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

What Sefton Council spent it on

  • Adult Social Care£144.3m
  • Capital£52.0m
  • Corporate£36.4m
  • Education Excellence£34.7m
  • Health and Wellbeing£16.4m
  • Post Incoming Invoices£15.0m
  • Communities£13.9m
  • Corporate Resources£13.7m

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£36.5m
  • May 2025£31.9m
  • Jun 2025£36.5m
  • Jul 2025£32.3m
  • Aug 2025£33.1m
  • Sep 2025£38.0m
  • Oct 2025£36.9m
  • Nov 2025£32.7m
  • Dec 2025£34.9m
  • Jan 2026£6.7m
  • Feb 2026£29.0m
  • Mar 2026£25.8m

What we hold

Spending records held for each financial year, and whether each year reconciles
Financial yearMonths heldRecordsStatus
2026/271 of 126Part year held
2025/2612 of 1275,055Checked against budget
2024/2512 of 122,165unanchored
2023/248 of 1223Part year held
2022/236 of 128Part year held
2021/223 of 125Part year held
2020/211 of 121Part year held
2005/061 of 121Part year held

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Publication

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No series held Latest payment held here: n/a

As at 2026-09-26 this site could not find or read a series of published payments for Sefton Council. That is a statement about this site's holdings and not about the council.

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 Sefton Council's files on 2026-09-09. The council's own spending page .

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Budget figures

What Sefton 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 Sefton Council

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