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Wirral Council spending

Wirral Council published 38,462 payments totalling £430,246,248 dated 1 October 2025 to 29 May 2026, in the 7 spending files Olympus has loaded (the council publishes spending over £500).

The largest named supplier was NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB (£20,402,273). 739 payments went to payees the council redacted (usually individuals); they count in the totals but are never named. No payments are loaded for December 2025.

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

MeasureValue
Council (ONS GSS code)Wirral Council (E08000015)
Payment dates1 October 2025 to 29 May 2026
File periods1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026
Months with paymentsOctober 2025, November 2025, January 2026, February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026
Months missingDecember 2025
Files loaded / not loaded7 / 43
What the council publishesover £500
Payments38,462
Total£430,246,248.13
Suppliers (normalised names)2,170
Payments to redacted payees739
Cataloguedata.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.

MonthPaymentsTotalSource file
October 20255,189£72,095,752.63Expenditure Exceeding £500 October 2025
November 20255,109£50,260,823.35Expenditure Exceeding £500 November 2025
January 20265,351£77,767,593.11Expenditure Exceeding £500 January 2026
February 20265,214£47,682,863.42Expenditure Exceeding £500 February 2026
March 20265,718£78,475,021.48Expenditure Exceeding £500 March 2026
April 20266,741£52,313,479.04Expenditure Exceeding £500 April 2026
May 20265,140£51,650,715.10Expenditure Exceeding £500 May 2026
  • 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, 1 October 2025 to 29 May 2026, grouped by normalised name, from the files listed below.

SupplierPaymentsTotalCompanies House number
NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB24£20,402,273.36—
WIRRAL SCHOOLS SERVICES LIMITED88£15,285,189.67—
POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER FOR MERSEYSIDE10£13,812,664.41—
Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API)75£11,811,356.65—
Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API)13£8,372,499.49—
CHANGE GROW LIVE SERVICES LIMITED23£7,678,181.01—
Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API)18£7,648,242.23—
ST HELENS BOROUGH COUNCIL7£7,565,260.23—
Supplier not shown (the name may be an individual's; see the API)457£7,528,010.12—
DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION4£5,983,225.20—
  • 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.

DepartmentServicePaymentsTotal
Adults Care and Health and Strategic CommissioningS61324,896£30,382,847.65
Schools / DSGE11705,000£26,780,692.11
Schools / DSGE58701,153£20,212,115.39
Control AccountsW811415£19,615,433.40
Control AccountsW80014£19,467,479.00
Adults Care and Health and Strategic CommissioningS61312,210£18,635,446.03
Children, Families & EducationE70801,532£18,486,901.88
Adults Care and Health and Strategic CommissioningS61423,565£16,645,535.15
Adults Care and Health and Strategic CommissioningS61212,089£16,351,309.51
Children, Families & EducationE118157£13,595,580.13

Top expense types

The ten largest expense types by amount, as the council labels them.

Expense typePaymentsTotal
not published38,462£430,246,248.13

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.

FilePeriodStatusPayments loadedFile dateLicence
Expenditure Exceeding £500 October 20251 October 2025 to 31 October 2025loaded5,18928 November 2025UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Expenditure Exceeding £500 November 20251 November 2025 to 30 November 2025loaded5,1094 February 2026UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Expenditure Exceeding £500 January 20261 January 2026 to 31 January 2026loaded5,35124 February 2026UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Expenditure Exceeding £500 February 20261 February 2026 to 28 February 2026loaded5,21412 March 2026UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Expenditure Exceeding £500 March 20261 March 2026 to 31 March 2026loaded5,71828 May 2026UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Expenditure Exceeding £500 April 20261 April 2026 to 30 April 2026loaded6,7412 July 2026UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Expenditure Exceeding £500 May 20261 May 2026 to 31 May 2026loaded5,14014 July 2026UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
  • File date: the date the council's server gives for the file when it was retrieved.

Sources

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The same figures, with provenance on every value, from the API (free API key, reference).

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curl -s "https://api.olympus.new-odyssey.com/v1/uk-council-spending/councils/E08000015" -H "X-API-Key: $OLYMPUS_API_KEY"

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