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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 £98,924 across 25 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
independent-thinking
Councils that published a payment
25
Payments published
54
Latest year held
2025/26

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.
Council2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/26All years heldPayments
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poolen/an/an/an/an/an/a£4,314£4,3144
Cambridgeshiren/an/an/an/an/a£2,087n/a£2,0871
Derby Cityn/an/an/an/an/a£6,939n/a£6,9393
Devon County Counciln/an/an/a£2,503£2,839£1,700£1,758£8,7995
Doncastern/an/an/an/an/a£5,081n/a£5,0812
Essexn/an/an/an/a£1,048n/a£4,622£5,6702
Gateshead£2,426£2,150£1,650£7,084£1,377n/a£1,741£16k12
Haltonn/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,372£1,3721
Hampshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,750£1,7501
Kingston-upon-Hulln/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,327£1,3272
Lancashiren/an/an/an/an/a£5,340£5,521£11k3
Leedsn/an/an/an/an/a£900n/a£9001
Nottingham Cityn/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,781£1,7811
Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/an/a£3,636n/a£3,6361
Portsmouthn/an/an/an/an/a£4,288n/a£4,2882
Salfordn/an/an/an/an/a£1,192n/a£1,1921
Sandwelln/an/an/an/a£1,220n/an/a£1,2201
Somersetn/an/an/an/an/a£2,836£2,405£5,2412
South Gloucestershiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£3,600£3,6001
St Helensn/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,481£1,4812
Wakefieldn/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,572£1,5721
Wandsworthn/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,771£1,7711
Warringtonn/an/an/an/an/a£1,432n/a£1,4321
Warwickshiren/an/an/an/a£2,790n/a£1,701£4,4902
Wirraln/an/an/an/an/a£1,694n/a£1,6941

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
Lancashire28 Jul 2025£5,521n/a
Essex29 Jul 2025£4,622SERVICES FEES & CHARGES
Derby City17 Sept 2024£4,000People Services - Children & Young People
Oxfordshire25 Nov 2024£3,636INDEPENDENT THINKING LTD
South Gloucestershire4 Mar 2026£3,600Data Not Held
Lancashire20 Nov 2024£3,276n/a
Somerset17 Mar 2025£2,836n/a
Warwickshire29 Nov 2023£2,790Professional Fees
Doncaster17 Apr 2024£2,541n/a
Doncaster17 Apr 2024£2,541n/a
Devon County Council10 Oct 2022£2,5031802
Portsmouth19 Mar 2025£2,428n/a
Somerset15 May 2025£2,405n/a
Cambridgeshire20 Nov 2024£2,087Staff Training & Development
Lancashire11 Mar 2025£2,064n/a
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole29 Jul 2025£1,950Pupil Premium for LAC
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole13 Jan 2026£1,909Pupil Premium for LAC
Portsmouth22 Apr 2024£1,860n/a
Gateshead6 Apr 2022£1,790Indirect Employee Expenses
Gateshead18 Nov 2022£1,788Licenses, Housing, 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 25 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, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26.

Councils that contributed: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Cambridgeshire, Derby City, Devon County Council, Doncaster, Essex, Gateshead, Halton, Hampshire, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lancashire, Leeds, Nottingham City, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Salford, Sandwell, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, St Helens, Wakefield, Wandsworth, Warrington, Warwickshire, Wirral.

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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