UK council spending
City of York Council spending
City of York Council published 90,497 payments totalling £392,365,782 dated 2 April 2025 to 31 July 2026, in the 2 spending files Olympus has loaded (the council publishes spending over £250).
The largest named supplier was John Sisk & Son (Holdings) Limited (£12,642,113). 2,934 payments went to payees the council redacted (usually individuals); they count in the totals but are never named.
Data as of Oct 21, 2026 (Olympus publication) · Markdown version
- Payments as each council publishes them under the Local Government Transparency Code 2015, mapped onto one schema. Amounts, dates and names are not adjusted: councils differ in threshold (over £500, over £250 or all spend), in whether amounts include VAT, and in which date they publish (payment, posting or certification). Redacted payees, usually individuals, are returned as redacted and never named. See GET /v1/uk-council-spending/coverage for the councils, files and months loaded.
- Suppliers are grouped by a normalised form of the published name (upper case, punctuation removed, LIMITED as LTD, ...). Grouping is not identity: different organisations can share a name, and one organisation can appear under several. A supplier is linked to a company only through a Companies House number a council file publishes.
What is loaded
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Council (ONS GSS code) | City of York Council (E06000014) |
| Payment dates | 2 April 2025 to 31 July 2026 |
| File periods | 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2027 |
| Months with payments | April 2025, May 2025, June 2025, July 2025, August 2025, September 2025, October 2025, November 2025, December 2025, January 2026, February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026, June 2026, July 2026 |
| Months missing | none |
| Files loaded / not loaded | 2 / 14 |
| What the council publishes | over £250 |
| Payments | 90,497 |
| Total | £392,365,782.33 |
| Suppliers (normalised names) | 2,708 |
| Payments to redacted payees | 2,934 |
| Catalogue | York Open Data |
- Coverage is only what the council has published and Olympus has loaded; see the coverage page for every council and month.
Spending by month
Payments by the month of the date the council publishes (payment, posting or certification date, as in each file), with the file each month comes from.
- Amounts as published: no VAT adjustment and no reconciliation to the council's accounts. Negative amounts are credits.
Top suppliers
The ten largest suppliers by amount, 2 April 2025 to 31 July 2026, grouped by normalised name, from the files listed below.
| Supplier | Payments | Total | Companies House number |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Sisk & Son (Holdings) Limited | 16 | £12,642,113.31 | — |
| Leeds City Council | 13 | £10,483,157.95 | — |
| North Yorkshire Council | 250 | £10,065,324.56 | — |
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 1,144 | £8,275,402.02 | — |
| Caddick Construction Ltd | 56 | £7,853,089.76 | — |
| Work with York Limited | 29 | £7,151,065.60 | — |
| Yorwaste Ltd | 1,138 | £6,015,014.47 | — |
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 2,137 | £5,606,363.85 | — |
| First York Ltd | 168 | £5,219,455.95 | — |
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 21 | £5,145,632.63 | — |
- A supplier is linked to a company only through a Companies House number the council's files publish, never by name.
Top service areas
The ten largest department and service pairs by amount, as the council labels them.
| Department | Service | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children and Education | School Delegated Funding | 7,445 | £54,449,354.01 |
| Adult Social Care and Integration | Community | 19,327 | £39,018,254.30 |
| Adult Social Care and Integration | Disabilities and Autism | 6,286 | £27,923,418.69 |
| Adult Social Care and Integration | Hospital and Mental Health | 5,426 | £23,611,943.36 |
| Adult Social Care and Integration | Adult Safeguarding | 4,722 | £21,025,426.75 |
| Transport Environment and Planning | Waste | 1,310 | £13,933,254.16 |
| Transport Environment and Planning | Transport | 1,283 | £11,639,653.51 |
| Transport Environment and Planning | Station Frontage WYTF | 101 | £11,287,619.61 |
| Corporate Budgets | Business Rates Retention | 5 | £10,431,233.00 |
| Adult Social Care and Integration | Adult Social Care | 10,842 | £8,923,492.75 |
Top expense types
The ten largest expense types by amount, as the council labels them.
| Expense type | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Residential Care | 9,959 | £59,364,659.10 |
| Contract Capital Works | 1,780 | £47,538,824.20 |
| Statutory Service Grants | 6,468 | £39,528,075.26 |
| Supported Living Schemes | 4,974 | £33,659,867.94 |
| Nursing Care | 3,108 | £18,666,716.55 |
| External Home Care | 24,843 | £18,043,803.30 |
| Delegated Budget To Schools | 818 | £13,959,884.73 |
| Professional Fees | 2,719 | £12,084,007.53 |
| Leeds City Council/LCR | 5 | £10,431,233.00 |
| Other Agencies | 757 | £9,531,034.51 |
Source files
Every file the council's catalogue lists that Olympus considered, with its period, whether it loaded, and its date and licence as published.
| File | Period | Status | Payments loaded | File date | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payments to Suppliers - 2025/2026 | 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 | loaded | 68,369 | 10 April 2026 | Open Government Licence 2.0 (United Kingdom) |
| Payments to Suppliers - 2026/2027 | 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 | loaded | 22,128 | 14 August 2026 | Open Government Licence 2.0 (United Kingdom) |
- File date: the date the council's server gives for the file when it was retrieved.
Sources
- City of York Council spending files (York Open Data catalogue) — City of York Council. Payments dated 2 April 2025 to 31 July 2026, source date 2026-08-14. https://data.yorkopendata.org/api/3/action/package_show?id=all-payments-to-suppliers
- Payments to Suppliers - 2025/2026 — City of York Council. Payments file for 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026, source date 2026-04-10. https://data.yorkopendata.org/dataset/27bc1dc6-d62f-4b93-a326-13989f5bfb56/resource/87260305-e43a-40a4-866e-ef5e050a3426/download/over250payments2025.csv
- Payments to Suppliers - 2026/2027 — City of York Council. Payments file for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027, source date 2026-08-14. https://data.yorkopendata.org/dataset/27bc1dc6-d62f-4b93-a326-13989f5bfb56/resource/cfaf0a6e-96e2-4d5d-bc80-da51b212e82a/download/over250payments2026.csv
- Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0 (City of York Council).
- City of York Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence 2.0 (United Kingdom) (York Open Data record license_title).
Get this data from the API
The same figures, with provenance on every value, from the API (free API key, reference).
curl -s "https://api.olympus.new-odyssey.com/v1/uk-council-spending/councils/E06000014" -H "X-API-Key: $OLYMPUS_API_KEY"