COLAN LTD

Name: COLAN LTD: payments published by councils in England
Creator: AI DOGE
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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

At least £49,520 across 10 councils since 2011/12

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: colan
Councils that published a payment: 10
Payments published: 36
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.
Council	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25	2025/26	2026/27	All years held	Payments
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£517	n/a	£517	2
East Sussex County Council	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£954	n/a	£954	1
Lancashire PCC	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£6,628	£1,763	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£8,390	4
Leicestershire	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£1,045	n/a	£1,045	1
Newham	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£3,420	£3,680	n/a	£7,100	2
Peterborough	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£965	n/a	n/a	£965	1
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£774	n/a	£4,735	£1,361	n/a	n/a	n/a	£6,870	10
Staffordshire	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£2,406	£2,406	1
Warwickshire	£3,700	£1,141	£790	£755	£788	£774	£1,321	£8,200	n/a	n/a	n/a	£2,870	n/a	n/a	n/a	£20k	13
West Berkshire	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	£936	n/a	£936	1

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.
Council	Date	Amount	Description
Warwickshire	15 Jun 2018	£8,200	Advertising, Publicity & Promotion
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council	1 Apr 2022	£4,060	Furniture & Equipment
Newham	27 Nov 2025	£3,680	Purchase - Equipment, Furniture And Materials
Newham	17 Sept 2024	£3,420	Purchase - Equipment, Furniture And Materials
Lancashire PCC	6 Jul 2021	£3,355	n/a
Lancashire PCC	23 Dec 2021	£2,413	n/a
Staffordshire	29 Jun 2026	£2,406	General Equipment Purchase
Warwickshire	28 Feb 2012	£2,275	Educational Initiatives
Warwickshire	17 Nov 2023	£1,920	Advertising, Publicity & Promotion
Lancashire PCC	23 Sept 2022	£1,763	n/a
Warwickshire	22 Mar 2012	£1,425	Educational Initiatives
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council	9 Nov 2023	£1,155	OTHER FEES & CHARGES
Leicestershire	21 Aug 2025	£1,045	4102-General Equipment - Purchase & Repairs
Peterborough	25 Oct 2024	£965	n/a
East Sussex County Council	20 Mar 2026	£954	Equipment
Warwickshire	1 Dec 2023	£950	Advertising, Publicity & Promotion
West Berkshire	22 Jul 2025	£936	Training Third Parties
Lancashire PCC	9 Aug 2021	£860	n/a
Warwickshire	13 Mar 2014	£790	Educational Initiatives
Warwickshire	22 Jun 2017	£790	Advertising, Publicity & Promotion

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 10 councils and 15 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.

Financial years held: 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, East Sussex County Council, Lancashire PCC, Leicestershire, Newham, Peterborough, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Berkshire.

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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