THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
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 £751,723 across 40 councils since 2011/12
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
- the-open-university
- Councils that published a payment
- 40
- Payments published
- 225
- Latest year held
- 2026/27
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | 2026/27 | All years held | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bexley | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £40k | £16k | £6,506 | £62k | 16 |
| Blackpool | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £4,075 | £3,670 | £3,670 | £11k | 3 |
| Brent | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,818 | n/a | n/a | £1,818 | 1 |
| Cornwall Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £20k | £67k | £30k | n/a | £117k | 30 |
| Doncaster | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £17k | n/a | n/a | £17k | 4 |
| East Lindsey | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,636 | n/a | n/a | £3,636 | 2 |
| East Suffolk | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,924 | £3,485 | n/a | £5,409 | 4 |
| East Sussex County Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,228 | £13k | n/a | n/a | n/a | £16k | 6 |
| Enfield | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £450 | n/a | n/a | £450 | 1 |
| Essex | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,012 | £3,096 | n/a | n/a | £753 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £6,861 | 3 |
| Gloucestershire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £8,670 | n/a | £8,670 | 2 |
| Halton | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,636 | n/a | n/a | £3,636 | 1 |
| Hart | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,818 | £3,892 | n/a | £5,710 | 3 |
| Hartlepool | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,636 | £3,892 | n/a | £7,528 | 4 |
| Horsham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,473 | £3,892 | n/a | £7,365 | 2 |
| Hounslow | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £4,335 | £3,892 | n/a | £8,227 | 2 |
| Isle of Wight | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,240 | £3,435 | £1,775 | £8,450 | 7 |
| Kent | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,800 | n/a | £2,800 | 1 |
| Lambeth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,818 | £5,710 | n/a | £7,528 | 4 |
| Lancashire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,400 | £1,263 | n/a | £3,663 | 2 |
| Lancashire PCC | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £8,333 | £7,000 | £7,000 | £7,000 | £7,000 | £8,000 | £8,000 | n/a | n/a | £52k | 8 |
| Lewisham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,946 | n/a | £1,946 | 1 |
| Mid Suffolk | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,584 | n/a | n/a | £1,584 | 1 |
| Newark & Sherwood | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,660 | n/a | £1,660 | 1 |
| Newcastle City Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,570 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,570 | 1 |
| North Hertfordshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,784 | n/a | £7,784 | 2 |
| Oxford | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,272 | £7,784 | n/a | £15k | 6 |
| Plymouth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £16k | £16k | n/a | £32k | 7 |
| Rochdale | n/a | n/a | £755 | n/a | £3,090 | £1,393 | £1,432 | £1,464 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £39k | £28k | £17k | £23k | n/a | £115k | 30 |
| Rother | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,360 | n/a | n/a | £3,360 | 1 |
| Sevenoaks | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,775 | £1,775 | 1 |
| Somerset | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,272 | £22k | n/a | £30k | 11 |
| Stockport | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £5,000 | n/a | £5,000 | 1 |
| Suffolk | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £6,988 | n/a | £6,988 | 2 |
| Surrey | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £9,531 | n/a | n/a | £9,531 | 2 |
| Tewkesbury | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,670 | n/a | £3,670 | 1 |
| Walsall | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,968 | £256 | n/a | £8,224 | 3 |
| Waltham Forest | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,367 | n/a | n/a | £7,367 | 3 |
| Warwickshire | £22k | £21k | £6,671 | £4,809 | £2,074 | £22k | £22k | £10k | £9,009 | £7,505 | £4,545 | £4,770 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £137k | 42 |
| West Northamptonshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,549 | £1,200 | n/a | £4,749 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warwickshire | 26 Mar 2018 | £11,456 | Training |
| Warwickshire | 24 Mar 2017 | £11,144 | Training - External |
| Warwickshire | 17 Nov 2016 | £11,144 | Training - External |
| Warwickshire | 20 Dec 2017 | £10,760 | Training |
| Warwickshire | 19 Mar 2019 | £10,280 | Training |
| Rochdale | 22 Nov 2022 | £9,684 | TRAINING |
| Rochdale | 22 Nov 2022 | £9,684 | TRAINING |
| Cornwall Council | 14 Nov 2024 | £8,670 | Training |
| Plymouth | 13 Nov 2025 | £8,670 | n/a |
| Warwickshire | 31 Oct 2011 | £8,540 | n/a |
| Lancashire PCC | 29 Feb 2024 | £8,000 | n/a |
| Lancashire PCC | 19 Dec 2024 | £8,000 | n/a |
| Surrey | 17 Apr 2024 | £7,800 | n/a |
| Bexley | 21 Nov 2024 | £7,272 | Staff Recruitment Costs |
| Rochdale | 25 Nov 2024 | £7,272 | TRAINING |
| Rochdale | 25 Nov 2024 | £7,272 | TRAINING |
| Somerset | 4 Mar 2025 | £7,272 | n/a |
| Walsall | 22 Aug 2024 | £7,272 | 6623-Computer Equipment |
| Warwickshire | 15 Mar 2012 | £7,220 | Exam / Tuition Fees (non-staff) |
| Lancashire PCC | 8 Mar 2019 | £7,000 | n/a |
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 40 councils and 16 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, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 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: Bexley, Blackpool, Brent, Cornwall Council, Doncaster, East Lindsey, East Suffolk, East Sussex County Council, Enfield, Essex, Gloucestershire, Halton, Hart, Hartlepool, Horsham, Hounslow, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lambeth, Lancashire, Lancashire PCC, Lewisham, Mid Suffolk, Newark & Sherwood, Newcastle City Council, North Hertfordshire, Oxford, Plymouth, Rochdale, Rother, Sevenoaks, Somerset, Stockport, Suffolk, Surrey, Tewkesbury, Walsall, Waltham Forest, Warwickshire, West Northamptonshire.
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.
- Bexley spending
- Blackpool spending
- Brent spending
- Cornwall Council spending
- Doncaster spending
- East Lindsey spending
- East Suffolk spending
- East Sussex County Council spending
- Enfield spending
- Essex spending
- Gloucestershire spending
- Halton spending
- Hart spending
- Hartlepool spending
- Horsham spending
- Hounslow spending
- Isle of Wight spending
- Kent spending
- Lambeth spending
- Lancashire spending
- Lancashire PCC spending
- Lewisham spending
- Mid Suffolk spending
- Newark & Sherwood spending
- Newcastle City Council spending
- North Hertfordshire spending
- Oxford spending
- Plymouth spending
- Rochdale spending
- Rother spending
- Sevenoaks spending
- Somerset spending
- Stockport spending
- Suffolk spending
- Surrey spending
- Tewkesbury spending
- Walsall spending
- Waltham Forest spending
- Warwickshire spending
- West Northamptonshire 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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