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JAMES BUTTON & CO SOLICITORS

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 £111,536 across 24 councils since 2018/19

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
james-button-and-co-solicitors
Councils that published a payment
24
Payments published
69
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.
Council2018/192019/202021/222023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Bolsovern/an/an/an/an/an/a£974£9741
Brecklandn/an/an/an/a£1,380£900£930£3,2104
Brighton & Hoven/an/an/an/a£860n/an/a£8601
Cambridgen/an/an/an/a£1,975£1,717n/a£3,6923
Canterburyn/an/an/an/a£1,440£2,210n/a£3,6503
Cherwelln/an/an/an/a£1,405n/an/a£1,4052
Chesterfieldn/an/an/an/a£900£930£936£2,7663
Coventry City Counciln/an/an/an/an/a£2,027n/a£2,0271
Dorsetn/an/an/an/a£3,565n/an/a£3,5654
East Suffolkn/an/an/an/a£1,155n/an/a£1,1551
Harlown/an/an/an/a£1,760n/an/a£1,7602
High Peakn/an/an/an/an/a£1,750n/a£1,7501
Hyndburn£385£8,167n/an/an/an/an/a£8,5523
Kingston-upon-Hulln/an/an/an/an/a£2,320n/a£2,3201
Lancastern/an/a£15kn/an/an/an/a£15k3
North East Derbyshiren/an/an/an/an/a£1,200n/a£1,2001
North Norfolkn/an/an/a£860n/an/an/a£8601
Sandwelln/an/an/an/an/a£2,720n/a£2,7203
St Helensn/an/an/an/an/a£2,860n/a£2,8603
Three Riversn/an/an/an/a£2,112£2,184£1,116£5,4124
Torbayn/an/an/an/a£7,344£4,131n/a£11k9
Warringtonn/an/an/an/a£14k£14kn/a£28k9
West Northamptonshiren/an/an/an/a£600£2,838n/a£3,4383
Wolverhamptonn/an/an/an/a£900£1,210£930£3,0403

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
Lancaster2 Mar 2022£13,560Legal & Court Costs
Hyndburn13 Nov 2019£7,467LEGAL FEES
Warrington26 Mar 2025£4,680n/a
Warrington12 Nov 2025£4,680n/a
Warrington1 Apr 2025£4,680n/a
Warrington17 Apr 2025£4,680n/a
Warrington15 Jul 2024£3,543n/a
Torbay18 Apr 2024£2,338SERVICES - LEGAL FEES
Kingston-upon-Hull1 Sept 2025£2,320n/a
Canterbury9 Apr 2025£2,210n/a
Three Rivers9 Jul 2025£2,184n/a
Coventry City Council3 Sept 2025£2,027n/a
Warrington1 Apr 2024£1,886n/a
Warrington13 May 2024£1,886n/a
West Northamptonshire30 May 2025£1,758Councillor Training & Development
High Peak10 Dec 2025£1,750n/a
Cambridge8 Jul 2025£1,717Members Support
Torbay27 Feb 2025£1,460nan
Torbay19 Dec 2024£1,460TRAINING GENERAL
Torbay7 Aug 2025£1,460TRAINING GENERAL

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 24 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: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2021/22, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Bolsover, Breckland, Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cherwell, Chesterfield, Coventry City Council, Dorset, East Suffolk, Harlow, High Peak, Hyndburn, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lancaster, North East Derbyshire, North Norfolk, Sandwell, St Helens, Three Rivers, Torbay, Warrington, West Northamptonshire, Wolverhampton.

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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