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CHRISTINE ASHTON 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 £72,520 across 13 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
christine-ashton
Councils that published a payment
13
Payments published
40
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.
Council2020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Bradford Council£1,500£3,000£9,350n/an/an/an/a£14k7
Croydonn/an/an/an/an/an/a£730£7301
Derby Cityn/an/an/an/an/a£9,670n/a£9,6705
Doncastern/an/an/an/a£1,100n/an/a£1,1002
Gatesheadn/an/an/an/a£550n/an/a£5501
Kentn/an/an/an/a£1,650n/a£550£2,2004
Mertonn/an/an/an/a£1,320n/an/a£1,3201
Milton Keynesn/an/an/an/a£660£660£1,320£2,6404
Newcastle City Counciln/an/a£1,650£550n/an/an/a£2,2002
Readingn/an/an/an/an/a£5,500n/a£5,5001
Rochdalen/a£13kn/a£550n/an/an/a£14k3
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council£10kn/an/an/an/an/an/a£10k1
Wakefieldn/an/a£9,160n/an/an/an/a£9,1608

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
Rochdale27 Sept 2021£11,250TRAINING-NON QUALIFICATION
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council17 Nov 2020£10,000Training
Bradford Council26 May 2022£7,700Trng Vocational
Reading16 Feb 2026£5,500Training & Development Costs
Derby City29 Jul 2025£3,300People Services - Children & Young People
Bradford Council29 Jul 2021£3,000Trng Vocational
Derby City1 Jul 2025£2,750People Services - Children & Young People
Derby City29 Jul 2025£2,520People Services - Children & Young People
Wakefield4 Apr 2022£2,475Training Expenses Employers
Wakefield4 Apr 2022£2,063Training Expenses Employers
Rochdale27 Sept 2021£1,800TRAINING-NON QUALIFICATION
Newcastle City Council11 Jan 2023£1,650Revenue Expenditure
Wakefield4 Apr 2022£1,650Training Expenses Employers
Merton26 Sept 2024£1,320170000 Education
Wakefield4 Apr 2022£1,238Training Expenses Employers
Bradford Council10 Mar 2023£1,100Trng Vocational
Wakefield4 Apr 2022£825Training Expenses Employers
Croydon17 Jun 2026£730FAMILY RESILIENCE AND JUSTICE SERVICE
Milton Keynes20 May 2024£660Staff Training & Development
Milton Keynes16 Feb 2026£660Other Service User Support

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 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: Bradford Council, Croydon, Derby City, Doncaster, Gateshead, Kent, Merton, Milton Keynes, Newcastle City Council, Reading, Rochdale, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Wakefield.

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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