THE BRITISH LIBRARY

What is held for this supplier

Canonical id

the-british-library

Councils that published a payment

22

Payments published

70

Latest year held

2026/27

What each council published, by year

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

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 22 councils and 9 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, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Blackburn with Darwen, Bradford Council, Calderdale, Cheshire West and Chester, City of London, Coventry City Council, Essex, Gloucestershire, Kent, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lancashire, Leeds, Lincolnshire, Newcastle City Council, Norfolk, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Sheffield, Warwickshire, 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.

• Blackburn with Darwen spending
• Bradford Council spending
• Calderdale spending
• Cheshire West and Chester spending
• City of London spending
• Coventry City Council spending
• Essex spending
• Gloucestershire spending
• Kent spending
• Kingston-upon-Hull spending
• Lancashire spending
• Leeds spending
• Lincolnshire spending
• Newcastle City Council spending
• Norfolk spending
• Plymouth spending
• Portsmouth spending
• Reading spending
• Sheffield spending
• Warwickshire spending
• West Northamptonshire spending
• Wolverhampton 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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