CEL SOLICITORS
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 £261,931 across 13 councils since 2019/20
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
- cel-solicitors
- Councils that published a payment
- 13
- Payments published
- 59
- Latest year held
- 2026/27
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2019/20 | 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 | £28k | £4,191 | n/a | £32k | 4 |
| Cambridgeshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,000 | n/a | n/a | £3,000 | 1 |
| Cornwall Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,000 | 1 |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £8,500 | n/a | n/a | £8,500 | 1 |
| Leeds | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £18k | n/a | n/a | £18k | 6 |
| Mansfield | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £5,343 | n/a | n/a | £5,343 | 2 |
| Milton Keynes | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £16k | £29k | n/a | £44k | 6 |
| Newham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £13k | £15k | £20k | £48k | 8 |
| North East Lincolnshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £21k | n/a | n/a | n/a | £21k | 4 |
| Sandwell | £6,834 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £9,652 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £16k | 5 |
| Tower Hamlets | £25k | £9,750 | £11k | £8,075 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £54k | 14 |
| Wandsworth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,100 | n/a | n/a | £7,100 | 3 |
| Wigan Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,860 | £1,400 | n/a | £3,260 | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newham | 27 Apr 2026 | £20,238 | Legal Fees |
| Barking & Dagenham | 22 Oct 2024 | £17,244 | HRA BALANCE SHEET (BS) |
| Milton Keynes | 31 May 2024 | £14,500 | Disrepair Claims |
| Milton Keynes | 30 Apr 2025 | £11,500 | Disrepair Claims |
| Barking & Dagenham | 14 Jun 2024 | £10,019 | HRA BALANCE SHEET (BS) |
| Tower Hamlets | 25 Mar 2022 | £10,000 | Services - Professional Fees - Legal Fees/Expenses |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | 7 Mar 2025 | £8,500 | n/a |
| Newham | 6 Jun 2024 | £8,400 | Legal Fees |
| Milton Keynes | 26 Nov 2025 | £8,000 | Disrepair Claims |
| Sandwell | 1 Mar 2024 | £8,000 | Total Housing Revenue Account |
| Tower Hamlets | 27 Nov 2020 | £8,000 | Services - Professional Fees - Legal Fees/Expenses |
| Leeds | 22 Jan 2025 | £7,750 | Insurance Claims |
| Newham | 7 Oct 2025 | £7,709 | Legal Fees |
| Tower Hamlets | 7 Feb 2020 | £7,083 | Services - Professional Fees - Legal Fees/Expenses |
| Tower Hamlets | 7 Oct 2022 | £7,000 | Services - Professional Fees - Legal Fees/Expenses |
| Milton Keynes | 3 Oct 2025 | £6,475 | Insurance Claims Paid |
| North East Lincolnshire | 24 Oct 2023 | £6,000 | Legal & Conveyancing Charges |
| North East Lincolnshire | 24 Oct 2023 | £6,000 | Legal & Conveyancing Charges |
| Tower Hamlets | 29 Jul 2019 | £6,000 | Inter-company Account - Due from THH - External Payments |
| Newham | 15 Dec 2025 | £5,750 | Legal Fees |
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 13 councils and 8 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.
Financial years held: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.
Councils that contributed: Barking & Dagenham, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall Council, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds, Mansfield, Milton Keynes, Newham, North East Lincolnshire, Sandwell, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, Wigan Council.
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
- Cambridgeshire spending
- Cornwall Council spending
- Kingston-upon-Hull spending
- Leeds spending
- Mansfield spending
- Milton Keynes spending
- Newham spending
- North East Lincolnshire spending
- Sandwell spending
- Tower Hamlets spending
- Wandsworth spending
- Wigan Council 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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