UK council spending
Leicester City Council spending
Leicester City Council published 134,861 payments totalling £929,459,882 dated 7 July 2024 to 30 September 2026, in the 2 spending files Olympus has loaded (the council publishes spending over £500).
The largest named supplier was Biffa Waste Services Ltd (£35,381,208). 4,589 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) | Leicester City Council (E06000016) |
| Payment dates | 7 July 2024 to 30 September 2026 |
| File periods | 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026 |
| Months with payments | January 2025, February 2025, March 2025, 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, August 2026, September 2026 |
| Months missing | none |
| Files loaded / not loaded | 2 / 106 |
| What the council publishes | over £500 |
| Payments | 134,861 |
| Total | £929,459,881.88 |
| Suppliers (normalised names) | 3,952 |
| Payments to redacted payees | 4,589 |
| Catalogue | data.gov.uk |
- 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, 7 July 2024 to 30 September 2026, grouped by normalised name, from the files listed below.
| Supplier | Payments | Total | Companies House number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biffa Waste Services Ltd | 209 | £35,381,207.77 | — |
| Lovell Partnerships Ltd | 37 | £16,390,294.45 | — |
| Leicester BSF Company 2 Ltd | 91 | £14,735,886.93 | — |
| Leicester BSF Company 1 Ltd | 116 | £14,592,963.47 | — |
| Click Travel Ltd T/A Perk UK Ltd | 67 | £13,867,022.07 | — |
| Turning Point Services Ltd FA SL&FSB | 63 | £13,035,507.29 | — |
| Total Gas & Power Ltd | 2,508 | £10,659,801.52 | — |
| Click Travel Ltd | 61 | £10,646,076.50 | — |
| Gap Property Services (Leicester) Ltd | 184 | £10,360,188.98 | — |
| Arriva Midlands Ltd | 36 | £10,211,155.08 | — |
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education & Childrens Services | not published | 26,103 | £269,304,734.64 |
| Adults | not published | 77,946 | £261,355,191.80 |
| City Developments and Neighbourhood | not published | 22,092 | £187,836,526.28 |
| Housing HRA | not published | 892 | £48,507,880.12 |
| City, Development and Neighbourhoods | not published | 1,724 | £44,619,435.58 |
| Corporate Resources & Support | not published | 3,146 | £31,204,323.65 |
| Corporate Finance | not published | 522 | £27,729,450.86 |
| Public Health Department | not published | 930 | £25,917,773.04 |
| Education and Children’s Services | not published | 493 | £14,450,693.86 |
| Housing General Fund | not published | 548 | £7,311,725.62 |
Top expense types
The ten largest expense types by amount, as the council labels them.
| Expense type | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Residential Care | 34,053 | £150,868,427.12 |
| Building Works - Alterations | 1,709 | £71,970,585.08 |
| Voluntary Organisations | 6,199 | £69,309,388.27 |
| Other Agencies | 6,757 | £58,673,794.79 |
| Home Care | 28,599 | £47,743,199.85 |
| Accommodation Expenses | 4,741 | £46,916,565.62 |
| Private Contractors | 265 | £39,823,204.83 |
| BSF - Unitary Charge | 44 | £27,615,972.45 |
| Independent School Fees | 1,270 | £25,491,482.68 |
| Supported Living | 5,539 | £24,571,550.90 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| expenditure-exceeding-ps500-2025.csv | 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 | loaded | 76,639 | — | not stated |
| expenditure-exceeding-ps500-2026.csv | 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026 | loaded | 58,222 | — | not stated |
- File date: the date the council's server gives for the file when it was retrieved.
Sources
- Leicester City Council spending files (data.gov.uk catalogue) — Leicester City Council. Payments dated 7 July 2024 to 30 September 2026. https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=expenditure-exceeding-500-2026
- expenditure-exceeding-ps500-2025.csv — Leicester City Council. Payments file for 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. https://data.leicester.gov.uk/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/expenditure-exceeding-ps500-2025/exports/csv?use_labels=true
- expenditure-exceeding-ps500-2026.csv — Leicester City Council. Payments file for 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026. https://data.leicester.gov.uk/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/expenditure-exceeding-ps500-2026/exports/csv?use_labels=true
- Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leicester City Council).
- Leicester City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leicester open data portal dataset metadata; the harvested data.gov.uk record states none).
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/E06000016" -H "X-API-Key: $OLYMPUS_API_KEY"