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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 £1,158,271 across 27 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
w-f-howes
Councils that published a payment
27
Payments published
1,173
Latest year held
2024/25

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.
Council2011/122012/132013/142014/152015/162016/172017/182018/192019/202020/212021/222022/232023/242024/25All years heldPayments
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poolen/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£389£3897
Bracknell Forestn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£2,800£2,8002
Bradford Counciln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£9,136n/a£590n/an/a£9,7262
Calderdalen/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£34k£41k£4,989£1,268n/an/a£81k70
Cambridgeshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£526£5261
East Sussex County Counciln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£7,078£4,270n/a£11k18
Essexn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£146k£154k£56k£48k£26k£4,350£433k638
Hampshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£747£7471
Hertfordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,324£1,3244
Kentn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,531£1,5314
Kingston-upon-Hulln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£96£962
Leedsn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£19£191
Leicester Cityn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£9,360£9,3602
Medway Townsn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£4,095£4,0952
North Yorkshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£438£43818
Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£1,917£1,380£3,2975
Plymouthn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£502£5021
Rochdalen/an/an/an/a£1,000£6,388£3,153£3,694£8,749£12k£4,372£4,903£6,126£1,911£53k166
Sheffieldn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£328£3281
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Counciln/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£38k£8,028n/an/an/a£46k26
Stoke-on-Trentn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£5,363£5,3632
Sunderlandn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£4,821£6,496n/an/an/an/a£11k3
Tower Hamletsn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£7,459£43kn/an/an/an/a£51k17
Wakefieldn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£34k£38k£12k£14k£10k£11k£118k47
Waltham Forestn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£515£5151
Warwickshire£13k£12k£6,449£46k£58k£50k£55kn/an/a£39k£20k£6,616£2,309n/a£309k129
Wiltshiren/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£3,671£3,6713

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
Essex12 May 2020£28,537BOOKS & MULTIMEDIA
Essex18 Jun 2019£20,650BOOKS & MULTIMEDIA
Essex2 Oct 2019£20,650BOOKS & MULTIMEDIA
Essex21 Apr 2020£20,650CORPORATE & CUSTOMER SERVICES
Essex21 Sept 2020£20,650BOOKS & MULTIMEDIA
Essex30 Jul 2019£17,403BOOKS & MULTIMEDIA
Warwickshire10 Feb 2016£15,000Books
Wakefield5 May 2022£13,518Books & Other Publications
Warwickshire12 Jan 2016£11,915Books
Warwickshire23 Feb 2018£11,005Books, Newspapers & Publications
Warwickshire26 Jun 2020£10,629Books, Newspapers & Publications
Wakefield10 Jun 2020£10,442Books & Other Publications
Wakefield21 Apr 2023£10,434Books & Other Publications
Wakefield26 Aug 2020£10,402Books & Other Publications
Warwickshire9 Jun 2017£10,395Books, Newspapers & Publications
Warwickshire9 Feb 2018£10,125Books, Newspapers & Publications
Wakefield12 Jun 2019£9,945Books & Other Publications
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council2 Mar 2021£9,200Materials
Bradford Council19 May 2020£9,136Educational Supplies
Warwickshire30 Mar 2015£9,000Books

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 27 councils and 14 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.

Councils that contributed: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bracknell Forest, Bradford Council, Calderdale, Cambridgeshire, East Sussex County Council, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds, Leicester City, Medway Towns, North Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, Rochdale, Sheffield, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Tower Hamlets, Wakefield, Waltham Forest, Warwickshire, Wiltshire.

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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