GOVERNMENT LEGAL DEPARTMENT
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 £170,873 across 16 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
- government-legal-department
- Councils that published a payment
- 16
- Payments published
- 18
- Latest year held
- 2026/27
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2019/20 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | 2026/27 | All years held | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnet | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £5,080 | £5,080 | 1 |
| Barnsley | n/a | £4,596 | n/a | £1,146 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £5,742 | 2 |
| Bexley | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,000 | £3,000 | 1 |
| Calderdale | £1,200 | £800 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,000 | 2 |
| Castle Point | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £14k | n/a | £14k | 1 |
| Cherwell | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £53k | n/a | £53k | 1 |
| Cornwall Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,800 | n/a | n/a | £2,800 | 1 |
| Folkestone & Hythe | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £15k | n/a | £15k | 1 |
| Lambeth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £15k | n/a | n/a | £15k | 1 |
| Lincolnshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £8,213 | n/a | n/a | £8,213 | 1 |
| Maidstone | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £6,000 | n/a | n/a | £6,000 | 1 |
| Mid Suffolk | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £12k | n/a | n/a | £12k | 1 |
| Sandwell | £7,665 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,665 | 1 |
| St Helens | n/a | n/a | £651 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £651 | 1 |
| West Suffolk | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £18k | n/a | £18k | 1 |
| Wyre | £2,250 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,250 | 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
| Council | Date | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherwell | 10 Dec 2025 | £53,204 | n/a |
| West Suffolk | 24 Apr 2025 | £17,760 | Planning Statutory Review |
| Lambeth | 23 Sept 2024 | £15,425 | LEGAL FEES |
| Folkestone & Hythe | 28 Jul 2025 | £14,900 | Professional Advice & Fees |
| Castle Point | 24 Dec 2025 | £13,696 | n/a |
| Mid Suffolk | 22 May 2024 | £12,487 | n/a |
| Lincolnshire | 31 Aug 2024 | £8,213 | Services |
| Sandwell | 1 Jan 2020 | £7,665 | Assistant Chief Executive (Excl SIU) |
| Maidstone | 14 Feb 2025 | £6,000 | Professional Services Legal |
| Barnet | 13 May 2026 | £5,080 | n/a |
| Barnsley | 17 Jan 2022 | £4,596 | Legal Fees |
| Bexley | 18 May 2026 | £3,000 | Deposits - events |
| Cornwall Council | 19 Nov 2024 | £2,800 | Rent |
| Wyre | 19 Sept 2019 | £2,250 | Reference Z1908802 |
| Calderdale | 30 Aug 2019 | £1,200 | Payment of accounts payable invoices |
| Barnsley | 8 Jun 2023 | £1,146 | Direct - General Materials |
| Calderdale | 11 Oct 2021 | £800 | Payment of accounts payable invoices |
| St Helens | 9 Feb 2023 | £651 | 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 16 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: 2019/20, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.
Councils that contributed: Barnet, Barnsley, Bexley, Calderdale, Castle Point, Cherwell, Cornwall Council, Folkestone & Hythe, Lambeth, Lincolnshire, Maidstone, Mid Suffolk, Sandwell, St Helens, West Suffolk, 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.
- Barnet spending
- Barnsley spending
- Bexley spending
- Calderdale spending
- Castle Point spending
- Cherwell spending
- Cornwall Council spending
- Folkestone & Hythe spending
- Lambeth spending
- Lincolnshire spending
- Maidstone spending
- Mid Suffolk spending
- Sandwell spending
- St Helens spending
- West Suffolk 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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