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Dawsongroup Bus and Coach Limited: council payments

2 published councils paid Dawsongroup Bus and Coach Limited £158,345 across 93 payments dated 29 October 2025 to 29 September 2026, as the councils publish them in their spending files.

The largest payer was Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (£84,614).

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.

Totals by council

Each council's payments to this supplier name, from the spending files in that council's catalogue.

CouncilPaymentsTotalFirst paymentLast paymentSource
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council38£84,614.1129 October 202529 September 2026Data Mill North catalogue
London Borough of Barnet55£73,731.2929 October 202526 August 2026Barnet open data catalogue

Totals by month

Payments from every council above, by the month of the date each council publishes.

MonthPaymentsTotal
October 202513£10,033.80
November 20251£8,206.92
December 202513£16,854.19
January 20269£10,918.82
February 20261£8,206.92
March 20268£16,463.77
April 20263£13,152.23
May 20268£9,396.53
June 202615£25,874.82
July 20265£17,597.20
August 202613£9,361.12
September 20264£12,279.08
  • Amounts as published: no VAT adjustment and no reconciliation to accounts. Negative amounts are credits.

Recent payments

The 10 latest payments, each with the council file it is read from.

Payment dateCouncilAmountExpense typeSource file (file date)
29 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£2,801.63Coach HireSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
29 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£2,259.53Coach HireSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
29 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£1,992.21Coach HireSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
9 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£5,225.71Coach HireSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
26 August 2026London Borough of Barnet-£93.72Vehicle LeasesExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
26 August 2026London Borough of Barnet-£93.72Vehicle LeasesExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
26 August 2026London Borough of Barnet-£93.72Vehicle LeasesExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
26 August 2026London Borough of Barnet-£1,425.27Vehicle LeasesExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
26 August 2026London Borough of Barnet-£562.30Vehicle LeasesExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
26 August 2026London Borough of Barnet-£1,425.27Vehicle LeasesExpenditure Report August 2026.csv

Top expense types

How the councils label these payments, largest first.

Expense typePaymentsTotal
Coach Hire38£84,614.11
Vehicle Leases23£42,331.40
Vehicle Hire32£31,399.89

Names and identifiers

The spellings councils publish, and the numbers their files carry or the shared identifier registry links. Payments are grouped by a normalised name, which is not identity.

Name or identifierValueWhere from
Name as publishedDawsongroup Bus and Coach Limited55 payments
Name as publishedDAWSONGROUP BUS AND COACH LTD38 payments
Companies House number02434773published in the council files
  • Supplier pages exist only for suppliers paid at least £100,000 in total or by at least 3 councils, and only when the published lines show an organisation (a Companies House or charity number, a legal form such as LTD or PLC, or a public body's name) and the name has no personal title. Sole traders, individuals and payees councils redact get no page.

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
  • London Borough of Barnet spending files (Barnet open data catalogue) — London Borough of Barnet. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 28 August 2026. https://open.barnet.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=2ywz8
  • 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).
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (London Borough of Barnet).
  • London Borough of Barnet: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3 (Barnet open data record license_title).

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Councils that paid this supplier

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