BOUND AND GAGGED 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 £593,292 across 24 councils since 2021/22
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
- bound-and-gagged
- Councils that published a payment
- 24
- Payments published
- 70
- Latest year held
- 2026/27
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | 2026/27 | All years held | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,056 | n/a | £2,056 | 1 |
| Calderdale | n/a | £9,910 | £34k | n/a | £19k | n/a | £63k | 4 |
| Cambridge | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £23k | n/a | £23k | 1 |
| Charnwood | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,972 | £7,966 | n/a | £16k | 2 |
| Chelmsford | n/a | n/a | n/a | £8,352 | £45k | £9,851 | £63k | 12 |
| Chesterfield | n/a | n/a | n/a | £20k | £19k | £14k | £53k | 5 |
| Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,333 | n/a | n/a | £7,333 | 1 |
| Durham | n/a | n/a | n/a | £17k | £569 | £588 | £18k | 4 |
| Eastleigh | n/a | n/a | n/a | £21k | £3,445 | n/a | £24k | 4 |
| Gravesham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £12k | n/a | £12k | 1 |
| Harlow | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,136 | n/a | £3,136 | 1 |
| Horsham | n/a | n/a | n/a | £21k | n/a | n/a | £21k | 2 |
| Kirklees | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £19k | n/a | £19k | 2 |
| Medway Towns | n/a | n/a | n/a | £11k | £16k | n/a | £27k | 2 |
| North Yorkshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,155 | n/a | n/a | £3,155 | 1 |
| Nottingham City | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £31k | n/a | £31k | 2 |
| Reading | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,463 | £74k | n/a | £75k | 5 |
| Rushmoor | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £23k | n/a | £23k | 3 |
| Shropshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £29k | n/a | £29k | 2 |
| South Oxfordshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,683 | £6,204 | n/a | £8,887 | 5 |
| Surrey Heath | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £11k | £6,160 | £17k | 2 |
| Tamworth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,911 | n/a | £1,911 | 1 |
| Walsall | £4,860 | n/a | n/a | £21k | £4,760 | n/a | £31k | 5 |
| Wirral | n/a | n/a | n/a | £23k | n/a | n/a | £23k | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 30 Apr 2025 | £56,926 | Supplies and Services - |
| Shropshire | 17 Jul 2025 | £26,778 | Third Party Payments - Private Contractors |
| Cambridge | 9 Mar 2026 | £22,825 | nan |
| Nottingham City | 18 Nov 2025 | £21,346 | n/a |
| Calderdale | 26 Mar 2024 | £20,154 | Payment of accounts payable invoices |
| Kirklees | 2 Jun 2025 | £19,897 | nan |
| Calderdale | 16 Dec 2025 | £19,439 | Payment of accounts payable invoices |
| Wirral | 6 Jan 2025 | £16,270 | Arts & Leisure Services |
| Medway Towns | 16 Jun 2025 | £15,524 | Payments to Private Contractor |
| Calderdale | 21 Feb 2024 | £13,904 | Payment of accounts payable invoices |
| Chesterfield | 9 Apr 2026 | £13,736 | n/a |
| Durham | 7 Jun 2024 | £13,556 | Supplies and Services |
| Chesterfield | 4 Nov 2025 | £12,350 | n/a |
| Horsham | 22 Apr 2024 | £12,209 | PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTIONS |
| Gravesham | 13 Jun 2025 | £11,659 | n/a |
| Medway Towns | 18 Mar 2025 | £11,295 | Payments to Private Contractor |
| Reading | 14 Jul 2025 | £11,186 | Supplies and Services - |
| Surrey Heath | 25 Apr 2025 | £11,013 | Performances of Redacted data at Camberley Theatre on 22.03.25 |
| Eastleigh | 12 Nov 2024 | £10,484 | n/a |
| Rushmoor | 19 Feb 2026 | £10,260 | Payment to Artistes |
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 6 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.
Financial years held: 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.
Councils that contributed: Blackburn with Darwen, Calderdale, Cambridge, Charnwood, Chelmsford, Chesterfield, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Durham, Eastleigh, Gravesham, Harlow, Horsham, Kirklees, Medway Towns, North Yorkshire, Nottingham City, Reading, Rushmoor, Shropshire, South Oxfordshire, Surrey Heath, Tamworth, Walsall, Wirral.
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.
- Blackburn with Darwen spending
- Calderdale spending
- Cambridge spending
- Charnwood spending
- Chelmsford spending
- Chesterfield spending
- Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council spending
- Durham spending
- Eastleigh spending
- Gravesham spending
- Harlow spending
- Horsham spending
- Kirklees spending
- Medway Towns spending
- North Yorkshire spending
- Nottingham City spending
- Reading spending
- Rushmoor spending
- Shropshire spending
- South Oxfordshire spending
- Surrey Heath spending
- Tamworth spending
- Walsall spending
- Wirral 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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