UK council spending
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council spending
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council published 38,866 payments totalling £357,516,848 dated 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026, in the 4 spending files Olympus has loaded (the council publishes spending over £500).
The largest named supplier was WAKEFIELD WASTE PFI LTD (£36,124,624). 8,718 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) | Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (E08000036) |
| Payment dates | 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026 |
| File periods | 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026 |
| Months with payments | 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 | 4 / 116 |
| What the council publishes | over £500 |
| Payments | 38,866 |
| Total | £357,516,847.80 |
| Suppliers (normalised names) | 2,267 |
| Payments to redacted payees | 8,718 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2025 | 3,469 | £26,851,681.17 | Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q3.csv |
| November 2025 | 2,958 | £31,937,057.92 | Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q3.csv |
| December 2025 | 3,371 | £27,523,496.49 | Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q3.csv |
| January 2026 | 3,081 | £25,715,294.56 | Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q4.csv |
| February 2026 | 3,026 | £26,562,935.78 | Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q4.csv |
| March 2026 | 4,185 | £38,743,997.61 | Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q4.csv |
| April 2026 | 2,907 | £38,698,479.18 | Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q1.csv |
| May 2026 | 2,842 | £26,904,322.99 | Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q1.csv |
| June 2026 | 3,475 | £28,758,498.97 | Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q1.csv |
| July 2026 | 3,449 | £30,901,862.01 | Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv |
| August 2026 | 2,951 | £27,888,765.44 | Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv |
| September 2026 | 3,152 | £27,030,455.68 | Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv |
- 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 30 September 2026, grouped by normalised name, from the files listed below.
| Supplier | Payments | Total | Companies House number |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAKEFIELD WASTE PFI LTD | 36 | £36,124,624.20 | 08193325 |
| ROBERTSON FACILITIES MANAGEMENT | 1,332 | £17,614,127.12 | SC185956 |
| HAPTON CARE HOMES LIMITED | 1,354 | £12,578,163.31 | 03267571 |
| BRABNERS | 3 | £11,780,450.93 | OC309501 |
| HARROGATE AND DISTRICT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 21 | £8,150,092.61 | — |
| AMEY HIGHWAYS LIGHTING (WAKEFIELD) LTD | 23 | £7,542,508.14 | 04416055 |
| REED SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED | 61 | £7,478,140.28 | 06903140 |
| WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY | 61 | £6,695,836.69 | — |
| TURNING POINT SERVICES LTD | 15 | £4,871,178.59 | 02166697 |
| ACHIEVE TOGETHER LIMITED | 228 | £4,224,028.13 | 03153442 |
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| not published | Capital Projects (Not Revenue) | 1,995 | £58,430,316.39 |
| not published | Waste Management Contract | 46 | £36,137,911.76 |
| not published | Public Health Contracts | 209 | £19,015,149.69 |
| not published | Learning Disabilities East - SNP Commissioned Placements | 1,740 | £18,585,814.23 |
| not published | Ext 2yr Old Offer | 2,341 | £15,816,655.38 |
| not published | Under 2's Funding | 1,692 | £15,597,269.49 |
| not published | Property and Facilities Management | 2,691 | £14,570,905.29 |
| not published | Nursery Funding 3 & 4 Year Olds | 1,706 | £10,794,044.68 |
| not published | Home to School Transport – Holding Account. | 2,153 | £10,184,754.73 |
| not published | Learning Disabilities West - SNP Commissioned Placements | 1,016 | £9,883,455.57 |
Top expense types
The ten largest expense types by amount, as the council labels them.
| Expense type | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Residential Care Homes | 5,327 | £46,286,199.81 |
| Waste Disposal Services | 63 | £36,184,252.95 |
| Nurseries & Creches | 1,844 | £29,344,079.92 |
| Facilities Management | 1,399 | £18,081,952.53 |
| not published | 866 | £17,785,194.16 |
| Employment & Recruitment Agencies | 1,004 | £9,575,496.61 |
| Childcare Services | 548 | £9,511,230.00 |
| Childminders | 3,827 | £8,903,207.21 |
| Hospitals | 28 | £8,172,005.62 |
| Government Agencies | 73 | £7,611,723.13 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q3.csv | 1 October 2025 to 31 December 2025 | loaded | 9,803 | — | Open Government Licence v3 |
| Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q4.csv | 1 January 2026 to 31 March 2026 | loaded | 10,266 | — | Open Government Licence v3 |
| Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q1.csv | 1 April 2026 to 30 June 2026 | loaded | 9,182 | — | Open Government Licence v3 |
| Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv | 1 July 2026 to 30 September 2026 | loaded | 9,615 | — | Open Government Licence v3 |
- File date: the date the council's server gives for the file when it was retrieved.
Sources
- Wakefield Metropolitan District Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=e61m0
- Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q3.csv — Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Payments file for 1 October 2025 to 31 December 2025. https://datamillnorth.org/download/e61m0/r6l/Supplier%20Spend%202025-26%20Q3.csv
- Supplier Spend 2025-26 Q4.csv — Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Payments file for 1 January 2026 to 31 March 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/download/e61m0/qfe/Supplier%20Spend%202025-26%20Q4.csv
- Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q1.csv — Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Payments file for 1 April 2026 to 30 June 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/download/e61m0/w69/Supplier%20Spend%202026-27%20Q1.csv
- Supplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv — Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Payments file for 1 July 2026 to 30 September 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/download/e61m0/0vl/Supplier%20Spend%202026-27%20Q2.csv
- Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Wakefield Council).
- Wakefield Metropolitan District Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3 (Data Mill North record license_title).
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