UK council spending
Liverpool City Council spending
Liverpool City Council published 77,033 payments totalling £421,596,635 dated 21 November 2023 to 30 June 2025, in the 6 spending files Olympus has loaded (the council publishes spending over £500).
The largest named supplier was MATRIX SCM LTD (£14,753,079). 7,549 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) | Liverpool City Council (E08000012) |
| Payment dates | 21 November 2023 to 30 June 2025 |
| File periods | 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025 |
| Months with payments | January 2025, February 2025, March 2025, April 2025, May 2025, June 2025 |
| Months missing | none |
| Files loaded / not loaded | 6 / 0 |
| What the council publishes | over £500 |
| Payments | 77,033 |
| Total | £421,596,634.99 |
| Suppliers (normalised names) | 2,487 |
| Payments to redacted payees | 7,549 |
| Catalogue | Data Mill North |
- 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.
| Month | Payments | Total | Source file |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | 1 | £680.62 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| February 2024 | 1 | -£1,382.70 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| March 2024 | 3 | -£3,594.83 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| April 2024 | 4 | -£1,844.96 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| May 2024 | 5 | -£17,462.16 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| June 2024 | 1 | £13,093.23 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| July 2024 | 5 | £2,488.44 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| August 2024 | 2 | £16,285.72 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| September 2024 | 6 | £3,666.01 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| October 2024 | 15 | £431.56 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| November 2024 | 23 | £192,630.86 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| December 2024 | 2,322 | £10,451,984.35 | payment dated outside the files' periods |
| January 2025 | 13,429 | £78,889,144.21 | expenditure_202501.csv |
| February 2025 | 11,722 | £57,223,746.32 | expenditure_202502.csv |
| March 2025 | 13,590 | £80,848,922.11 | expenditure_202503.csv |
| April 2025 | 12,878 | £75,429,515.04 | expenditure_202504.csv |
| May 2025 | 13,541 | £68,813,957.19 | expenditure_202505.csv |
| June 2025 | 9,485 | £49,734,373.98 | expenditure_202506csv |
- 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, 21 November 2023 to 30 June 2025, grouped by normalised name, from the files listed below.
| Supplier | Payments | Total | Companies House number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 219 | £23,474,455.32 | — |
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 6,010 | £16,633,750.88 | — |
| MATRIX SCM LTD | 8,304 | £14,753,079.24 | — |
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 5 | £14,245,159.60 | — |
| NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB | 66 | £11,588,416.49 | — |
| TROWERS & HAMLINS LLP | 3 | £10,492,005.45 | — |
| LIVERPOOL SCHOOLS SERVICES LTD VARI | 74 | £9,577,962.83 | — |
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 18 | £8,284,770.36 | — |
| EDF ENERGY CUSTOMERS LIMITED | 52 | £6,515,179.18 | — |
| Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API) | 2,516 | £5,926,716.50 | — |
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult Services & Health | not published | 48,960 | £153,618,633.91 |
| Children & Young People Services | not published | 12,804 | £80,685,406.95 |
| Neighbourhoods | not published | 10,047 | £79,218,099.01 |
| Capital Regen | not published | 566 | £34,280,492.01 |
| Corporate Mgt | not published | 33 | £24,471,719.36 |
| City Development | not published | 2,339 | £17,068,936.90 |
| External Interest Payable | not published | 25 | £8,930,348.56 |
| Finance & Resources | not published | 774 | £8,330,218.87 |
| Strategy & Change Directorate | not published | 952 | £6,080,038.56 |
| Capital Central | not published | 182 | £4,440,968.25 |
Top expense types
The ten largest expense types by amount, as the council labels them.
| Expense type | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Private Contractors (Gen) | 47,105 | £160,925,285.04 |
| Misc. Expenses - General | 874 | £25,165,090.82 |
| MAIN CONTRACTOR | 258 | £16,055,043.53 |
| Hotel Bookings-Foreign | 5,956 | £15,397,006.33 |
| Agency Staff (Admin/Clerical) | 8,417 | £15,286,621.50 |
| Partnership Grants | 2,149 | £14,524,716.67 |
| Waste Disposal | 5 | £14,245,159.60 |
| Building Acquisitions | 2 | £10,881,095.12 |
| Bus Hire (General) | 614 | £10,217,667.37 |
| Priv.Prov'N 3 Yr Olds | 1,215 | £9,871,947.13 |
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_202501.csv | 1 January 2025 to 31 January 2025 | loaded | 12,808 | — | Open Government Licence v2 |
| expenditure_202502.csv | 1 February 2025 to 28 February 2025 | loaded | 11,618 | — | Open Government Licence v2 |
| expenditure_202503.csv | 1 March 2025 to 31 March 2025 | loaded | 13,210 | — | Open Government Licence v2 |
| expenditure_202504.csv | 1 April 2025 to 30 April 2025 | loaded | 12,710 | — | Open Government Licence v2 |
| expenditure_202505.csv | 1 May 2025 to 31 May 2025 | loaded | 13,754 | — | Open Government Licence v2 |
| expenditure_202506csv | 1 June 2025 to 30 June 2025 | loaded | 12,933 | — | Open Government Licence v2 |
- File date: the date the council's server gives for the file when it was retrieved.
Sources
- Liverpool City Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Liverpool City Council. Payments dated 21 November 2023 to 30 June 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=2w6d8
- expenditure_202501.csv — Liverpool City Council. Payments file for 1 January 2025 to 31 January 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/download/2w6d8/vw7/over-500-january-report.csv
- expenditure_202502.csv — Liverpool City Council. Payments file for 1 February 2025 to 28 February 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/download/2w6d8/wpn/over-500-february-report.csv
- expenditure_202503.csv — Liverpool City Council. Payments file for 1 March 2025 to 31 March 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/download/2w6d8/qme/over-500-march-report.csv
- expenditure_202504.csv — Liverpool City Council. Payments file for 1 April 2025 to 30 April 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/download/2w6d8/qd1/over-500-april-report.csv
- expenditure_202505.csv — Liverpool City Council. Payments file for 1 May 2025 to 31 May 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/download/2w6d8/wy2/over-500-may-report.csv
- expenditure_202506csv — Liverpool City Council. Payments file for 1 June 2025 to 30 June 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/download/2w6d8/wfw/over-500-june.csv
- Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0 (Liverpool City Council).
- Liverpool City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v2 (Data Mill North 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/E08000012" -H "X-API-Key: $OLYMPUS_API_KEY"