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John Sturrock: council payments

2 published councils paid John Sturrock £311,463 across 46 payments dated 4 April 2025 to 3 September 2026, as the councils publish them in their spending files.

The largest payer was City of York Council (£203,091).

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
City of York Council34£203,090.564 April 20252 July 2026York Open Data catalogue, 14 August 2026
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council12£108,372.9031 October 20253 September 2026Data Mill North catalogue

Totals by month

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

MonthPaymentsTotal
April 20252£14,049.90
May 20252£14,518.23
June 20252£14,049.90
August 20257£6,953.37
September 20253£5,235.26
October 20252£31,232.45
November 20253£30,890.45
December 20253£23,529.98
January 20263£9,227.80
February 20262£14,896.36
March 20262£16,492.40
April 20263£35,476.53
May 20264£25,617.36
June 20263£26,517.86
July 20263£27,401.78
August 20261£7,812.93
September 20261£7,560.90
  • 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)
3 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£7,560.90Residential Care HomesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
11 August 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£7,812.93Residential Care HomesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
29 July 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£7,812.93Residential Care HomesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
2 July 2026City of York Council£10,614.27Nursing Careover250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026)
2 July 2026City of York Council£8,974.58Nursing Careover250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026)
17 June 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£7,560.90Residential Care HomesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q1.csv
3 June 2026City of York Council£10,271.87Nursing Careover250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026)
3 June 2026City of York Council£8,685.09Nursing Careover250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026)
15 May 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£7,812.93Residential Care HomesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q1.csv
6 May 2026City of York Council£15,750.20Nursing Careover250payments2026.csv (14 August 2026)

Top expense types

How the councils label these payments, largest first.

Expense typePaymentsTotal
Nursing Care19£135,614.86
Residential Care Homes12£108,372.90
Residential Care15£67,475.70

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 publishedJohn Sturrock34 payments
Name as publishedJOHN STURROCK12 payments
Companies House number02327806published 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

  • City of York Council spending files (York Open Data catalogue) — City of York Council. Payments dated 2 April 2025 to 31 July 2026, source date 2026-08-14. https://data.yorkopendata.org/api/3/action/package_show?id=all-payments-to-suppliers
  • 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
  • Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0 (City of York Council).
  • City of York Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence 2.0 (United Kingdom) (York Open Data record license_title).
  • 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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