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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 £672,181 across 46 councils since 2013/14

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
guardian-news-and-media
Councils that published a payment
46
Payments published
177
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.
Council2013/142015/162016/172017/182018/192019/202020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Basildonn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£899n/an/a£8991
Blackburn with Darwenn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£3,215£1,725n/an/an/an/a£4,9407
Blackpooln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£690n/a£6901
Brentn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£14k£14k£28k2
Calderdalen/an/an/an/an/a£2,250n/a£975£575£1,150£575n/an/a£5,5258
City of Londonn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£575n/a£5751
Cornwall Counciln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£45k£26k£24kn/a£95k9
Crawleyn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975n/an/a£9751
Croydonn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975£8,873£8,873n/a£19k3
Dartfordn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,643n/an/a£2,6433
Devon County Counciln/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,665n/an/an/an/an/a£1,6652
Dorsetn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975n/an/a£9751
Essexn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,050n/an/an/an/a£1,0501
Folkestone & Hythen/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,170n/an/a£1,1701
Gatesheadn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,093n/an/an/an/an/a£1,0931
Hampshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£44k£1,968n/a£46k4
Isle of Wightn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£18k£13k£1,002£32k29
Islingtonn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£6,278£4,075n/a£10k13
Kirkleesn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£575n/a£5751
Lancashiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£575n/an/a£5751
Lancashire PCCn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975n/an/an/an/an/a£9751
Leedsn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,150n/an/a£1,1502
Leicester Cityn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975n/a£9751
Medway Townsn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,150n/an/a£1,1502
Mertonn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£690£17kn/a£18k4
Newcastle City Counciln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975£975n/a£1,9502
Newhamn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,325n/an/a£2,3252
North East Lincolnshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,779n/an/a£2,7791
Northumberlandn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975n/an/a£9751
Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£975£7,950n/an/a£8,9254
Plymouthn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£3,023n/an/a£3,0232
Rochdale£6,376£3,800£5,160£3,150n/an/an/a£2,075n/an/an/an/an/a£21k15
Somersetn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£6,865£4,649£8,299£20k17
South Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£575n/a£5751
Southwarkn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£8,400n/an/a£8,4001
Sunderlandn/an/an/an/an/a£12kn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£12k2
Surreyn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£82k£80kn/a£161k2
Test Valleyn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,525n/a£2,5253
Torbayn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£3,740n/an/a£3,7401
Wandsworthn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£64k£55kn/a£119k5
Warwickshiren/an/an/a£680£3,300£1,100£1,100n/an/an/an/an/an/a£6,1804
West Lancashiren/an/an/a£4,100n/a£7,456n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£12k3
Wiltshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£690n/a£6901
Wirraln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£690n/an/a£6901
Wyren/an/an/an/an/a£3,000n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£3,0001
Yorkn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,828£3,625n/a£6,4538

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
Surrey29 May 2024£81,600n/a
Surrey16 Jun 2025£79,500n/a
Wandsworth3 Jul 2025£50,276n/a
Wandsworth2 Sept 2024£45,356n/a
Hampshire23 Apr 2024£25,100Staff Advertising - General
Cornwall Council27 Apr 2023£25,000Miscellaneous Expenditure
Cornwall Council15 Jul 2025£23,550CFS SLT
Cornwall Council17 Sept 2024£23,000Recruitment Advertising - Other
Hampshire26 Mar 2025£19,360Staff Advertising - General
Brent2 Apr 2025£14,000Schools Hr
Brent20 Apr 2026£14,000Recruitment Service
Cornwall Council27 Apr 2023£12,797Miscellaneous Expenditure
Wandsworth28 May 2024£9,504n/a
Wandsworth22 Apr 2024£9,240n/a
Croydon2 Apr 2024£8,873CHILDREN'S SOCIAL CARE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
Croydon14 May 2025£8,8730
Southwark12 Jun 2024£8,400n/a
West Lancashire30 Aug 2019£7,456Advertising Recruitment
Isle of Wight11 Oct 2024£6,999n/a
Merton13 May 2025£6,529260000 Human Resources

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 46 councils and 13 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.

Financial years held: 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Basildon, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Brent, Calderdale, City of London, Cornwall Council, Crawley, Croydon, Dartford, Devon County Council, Dorset, Essex, Folkestone & Hythe, Gateshead, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Islington, Kirklees, Lancashire, Lancashire PCC, Leeds, Leicester City, Medway Towns, Merton, Newcastle City Council, Newham, North East Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, Rochdale, Somerset, South Oxfordshire, Southwark, Sunderland, Surrey, Test Valley, Torbay, Wandsworth, Warwickshire, West Lancashire, Wiltshire, Wirral, Wyre, York.

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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