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What councils in England published about payments to this supplier. Every figure below is a lower bound and is written as one.

What is held for this supplier

At least £56,087 across 24 councils since 2015/16

This is a lower bound, not a total. It adds up only the councils and financial years listed under what contributed, and inside those only the payments each council chose to publish above its own publication threshold. Every council outside that list has paid this supplier an amount nobody has added up. So the figure is written "at least".

Canonical id
authors-aloud-uk
Councils that published a payment
24
Payments published
67
Latest year held
2026/27

What each council published, by year

At least this much, per council per financial year. Each figure is what that council published and nothing else.
Council2015/162018/192019/202021/222022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Boltonn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£614n/a£6141
Cambridgeshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,111n/an/a£1,1111
Devon County Counciln/an/an/an/a£432£1,396n/an/an/a£1,8273
Essexn/an/an/an/a£913n/an/an/an/a£9131
Gloucestershiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,666n/an/a£1,6662
Hampshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,545n/an/a£1,5451
Hertfordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£479n/an/a£4791
Hounslown/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£640£6401
Islingtonn/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,110n/an/a£1,1101
Kingston-upon-Hulln/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£266n/a£2662
Lancashiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,068£667n/a£1,7353
Malvern Hillsn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£4,187n/a£4,1877
Newcastle City Counciln/an/an/an/a£308n/an/an/an/a£3081
Oldhamn/an/an/an/an/an/a£898n/an/a£8981
Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,100n/an/a£1,1002
Plymouthn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£787£7871
Sandwelln/an/an/an/a£1,102£706£4,714£3,449n/a£9,97013
Somersetn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£450£548£9982
South Gloucestershiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£4,934£8,429n/a£13k6
St Helensn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£722n/a£7222
Surreyn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£746n/a£7461
Wakefieldn/an/a£1,418£988£3,572£954n/an/an/a£6,9336
Warwickshire£639£619£649£874n/an/an/an/an/a£2,7814
Wiltshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£960£426n/a£1,3864

These councils are not comparable with one another. They hold different numbers of years, publish above different thresholds and buy different things, so a larger figure here means more was published and read, not that one council spent more freely than another. An empty cell is a year not held, never a year of nothing.

The largest payments published

The largest single payments to this supplier in the files held, each as the council published it.
CouncilDateAmountDescription
South Gloucestershire3 Feb 2026£4,211Data Not Held
South Gloucestershire3 Jul 2025£3,502n/a
Sandwell5 Dec 2024£2,265Environment L7
South Gloucestershire14 Oct 2024£2,222n/a
Gloucestershire1 May 2024£1,999Educational activities
South Gloucestershire24 Jul 2024£1,985n/a
Wakefield24 Jun 2022£1,954Books & Other Publications
Hampshire21 Nov 2024£1,545Hired and Contracted Services
Wakefield26 Nov 2019£1,418Fees
Sandwell1 Aug 2024£1,187Housing & Assets Total
Wakefield13 Oct 2022£1,185Fees
Cambridgeshire6 Sept 2024£1,111Professional Fees and Hired Services
Islington21 Jan 2025£1,110n/a
Wakefield26 Nov 2021£988Fees
Wakefield1 Nov 2023£954Entertainments
Essex6 Dec 2022£913SERVICES FEES & CHARGES
Oldham7 Aug 2024£898n/a
Warwickshire8 Oct 2021£874Professional Fees
Plymouth14 Apr 2026£787n/a
Malvern Hills5 Nov 2025£786Contractors

A description is the council's own wording on the row. A large single payment is often a scheduled settlement of many smaller invoices, and this site does not know which of these are.

Which councils and years contributed

Covers 24 councils and 9 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.

Financial years held: 2015/16, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Bolton, Cambridgeshire, Devon County Council, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Hounslow, Islington, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lancashire, Malvern Hills, Newcastle City Council, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, Sandwell, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, St Helens, Surrey, Wakefield, Warwickshire, Wiltshire.

A council that is not on this list has not been ingested for this supplier. That is a statement about this site's holdings and not about the council, and it is never a zero.

The council pages behind these figures

Every figure above was read off one council's own published payment file. Each council page carries what is held for it, when its files were last read, and its own publication threshold.

How this page was built

A supplier gets a page of its own when ten or more councils published a payment to it, or when at least £10m was published to it in a single financial year. That cut is a size, not a judgement, and it is applied the same way to every supplier.

Names are matched across councils by a canonical form of the supplier string each council published. Two councils spelling the same company differently are joined; a company and its subsidiary are not, unless the councils wrote the same name. Payments a council withheld are counted in that council's own totals and are on no page as a name. A Companies House number, where one is shown, comes from this site's own name match and plays no part in joining councils' payments together.

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