BATES OFFICE SERVICES LTD
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 £1,979,478 across 30 councils since 2020/21
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
- bates-office-services
- Councils that published a payment
- 30
- Payments published
- 1,295
- Latest year held
- 2026/27
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | 2026/27 | All years held | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking & Dagenham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,764 | n/a | £1,764 | 1 |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,025 | £8,426 | £352 | £9,803 | 11 |
| Bradford Council | £376k | £163k | £193k | £168k | £76k | n/a | n/a | £975k | 54 |
| Buckinghamshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £8,630 | £20k | £7,289 | £36k | 40 |
| Castle Point | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,325 | £2,989 | n/a | £6,314 | 5 |
| Dorset | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £37k | n/a | n/a | £37k | 9 |
| East Hampshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £11k | £1,167 | £1,173 | £13k | 14 |
| East Lindsey | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,170 | n/a | £2,170 | 1 |
| Hammersmith & Fulham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £574 | n/a | n/a | £574 | 1 |
| Havering | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £795 | £795 | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £179k | £40k | £14k | £233k | 198 |
| Lancashire Fire | n/a | n/a | £17k | £76k | £71k | £2,557 | n/a | £167k | 80 |
| Leicestershire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £9,844 | n/a | £9,844 | 2 |
| Lincolnshire | n/a | n/a | £735 | £1,483 | £434 | n/a | n/a | £2,653 | 5 |
| Malvern Hills | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,232 | n/a | £260 | £3,491 | 14 |
| Norfolk | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £20k | n/a | n/a | £20k | 3 |
| Northumberland | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £99k | n/a | n/a | £99k | 2 |
| Norwich | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £150 | n/a | n/a | £150 | 1 |
| Nottingham City | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £580 | n/a | £580 | 1 |
| Portsmouth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £564 | £7,099 | n/a | £7,663 | 4 |
| Rochford | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £14k | £2,870 | n/a | £17k | 24 |
| Sheffield | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £78k | n/a | n/a | £78k | 267 |
| Sunderland | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,742 | n/a | n/a | £1,742 | 1 |
| Swale | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £4,683 | £1,219 | n/a | £5,902 | 11 |
| Tower Hamlets | £134k | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £134k | 18 |
| Wandsworth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £730 | n/a | n/a | £730 | 1 |
| Westminster | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,520 | £29k | n/a | £36k | 35 |
| Wolverhampton | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £55k | n/a | £55k | 2 |
| Worcester | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £4,004 | £6,803 | n/a | £11k | 21 |
| Wyre | n/a | £3,231 | £7,846 | £4,099 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £15k | 468 |
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
| Council | Date | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford Council | 22 Apr 2020 | £195,896 | Office Stationery |
| Northumberland | 21 Feb 2025 | £87,883 | Equipment |
| Bradford Council | 21 May 2020 | £67,901 | Office Stationery |
| Hertfordshire | 20 Dec 2024 | £35,780 | n/a |
| Tower Hamlets | 22 May 2020 | £35,000 | Healthy & Safety Supplies |
| Tower Hamlets | 22 May 2020 | £34,380 | Healthy & Safety Supplies |
| Wolverhampton | 14 May 2025 | £31,845 | n/a |
| Bradford Council | 2 Sept 2022 | £25,460 | Office Stationery |
| Lancashire Fire | 26 Mar 2025 | £24,845 | furniture & soft furnishings.commercial furniture.commercial furniture.products (capital) |
| Bradford Council | 21 Dec 2023 | £23,966 | Office Stationery |
| Wolverhampton | 3 Dec 2025 | £23,000 | n/a |
| Bradford Council | 7 Nov 2023 | £22,590 | Office Stationery |
| Bradford Council | 27 May 2022 | £21,982 | Office Stationery |
| Bradford Council | 7 Dec 2022 | £21,700 | Office Stationery |
| Bradford Council | 18 Jan 2022 | £21,319 | Office Stationery |
| Bradford Council | 17 Jan 2023 | £20,305 | Office Stationery |
| Dorset | 26 Feb 2025 | £18,938 | County Buildings Gen |
| Bradford Council | 7 Nov 2023 | £18,701 | Office Stationery |
| Hertfordshire | 26 Nov 2024 | £18,257 | n/a |
| Bradford Council | 26 Nov 2021 | £18,000 | Office Stationery |
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 30 councils and 7 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.
Financial years held: 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.
Councils that contributed: Barking & Dagenham, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bradford Council, Buckinghamshire, Castle Point, Dorset, East Hampshire, East Lindsey, Hammersmith & Fulham, Havering, Hertfordshire, Lancashire Fire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Malvern Hills, Norfolk, Northumberland, Norwich, Nottingham City, Portsmouth, Rochford, Sheffield, Sunderland, Swale, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Westminster, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Wyre.
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.
- Barking & Dagenham spending
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole spending
- Bradford Council spending
- Buckinghamshire spending
- Castle Point spending
- Dorset spending
- East Hampshire spending
- East Lindsey spending
- Hammersmith & Fulham spending
- Havering spending
- Hertfordshire spending
- Lancashire Fire spending
- Leicestershire spending
- Lincolnshire spending
- Malvern Hills spending
- Norfolk spending
- Northumberland spending
- Norwich spending
- Nottingham City spending
- Portsmouth spending
- Rochford spending
- Sheffield spending
- Sunderland spending
- Swale spending
- Tower Hamlets spending
- Wandsworth spending
- Westminster spending
- Wolverhampton spending
- Worcester spending
- Wyre spending
- Every public body on this site
- Money moving between public bodies
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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