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PENNA PLC: council payments

7 published councils paid PENNA PLC £354,097 across 64 payments dated 27 June 2025 to 28 September 2026, as the councils publish them in their spending files.

The largest payer was Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (£212,110).

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 Council40£212,109.5028 October 202528 September 2026Data Mill North catalogue
Sheffield City Council4£51,008.0027 October 202511 December 2025Data Mill North catalogue
Leeds City Council10£32,181.475 December 202523 June 2026Data Mill North catalogue
City of York Council5£31,285.004 September 202528 November 2025York Open Data catalogue, 14 August 2026
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council3£12,500.0028 August 202628 August 2026data.gov.uk catalogue, 28 September 2026
Calderdale Council1£12,262.908 April 20268 April 2026Calderdale Data Works catalogue
Leicester City Council1£2,750.0027 June 202527 June 2025data.gov.uk catalogue

Totals by month

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

MonthPaymentsTotal
June 20251£2,750.00
September 20252£19,785.00
October 20254£39,040.00
November 20253£24,784.00
December 202511£53,205.00
January 20264£24,942.00
February 20263£22,202.50
March 20262£15,210.00
April 20264£32,796.40
May 20261£6,844.50
June 20269£39,466.97
July 20267£26,102.50
August 20267£25,428.50
September 20266£21,539.50
  • 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)
28 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£3,802.50Employment & Recruitment AgenciesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
14 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£3,042.00Employment & Recruitment AgenciesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
14 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£3,802.50Employment & Recruitment AgenciesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
7 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£3,287.50Employment & Recruitment AgenciesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
2 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£3,802.50Employment & Recruitment AgenciesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
2 September 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£3,802.50Employment & Recruitment AgenciesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv
28 August 2026Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council£3,125.00Recruitment / StaffingAll+Spend+August+2026.csv (28 September 2026)
28 August 2026Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council£3,125.00Recruitment / StaffingAll+Spend+August+2026.csv (28 September 2026)
28 August 2026Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council£6,250.00Recruitment / StaffingAll+Spend+August+2026.csv (28 September 2026)
13 August 2026Wakefield Metropolitan District Council£1,521.00Employment & Recruitment AgenciesSupplier Spend 2026-27 Q2.csv

Top expense types

How the councils label these payments, largest first.

Expense typePaymentsTotal
Employment & Recruitment Agencies40£212,109.50
EMPLOYMENT & RECRUITMENT AGENCIES4£51,008.00
Staff Advertising5£31,285.00
not published6£21,074.00
Recruitment / Staffing3£12,500.00
Grants And Subscriptions1£12,262.90
Employees?3£9,342.79
Conference / Seminar Expenses1£2,750.00
Supplies & Services?1£1,764.68

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 publishedPENNA PLC47 payments
Name as publishedPenna PLC10 payments
Name as publishedPenna Plc6 payments
Name as publishedPenna plc1 payments
Companies House number01918150published 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
  • Sheffield City Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Sheffield City Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=emd0m
  • Leeds City Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Leeds City Council. Payments dated 4 June 2025 to 30 June 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=2gpp0
  • 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
  • Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council spending files (data.gov.uk catalogue) — Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 28 August 2026, source date 2026-09-28. https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=stockport-council-all-spend
  • Calderdale Council spending files (Calderdale Data Works catalogue) — Calderdale Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. https://dataworks.calderdale.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=2wqx8
  • Leicester City Council spending files (data.gov.uk catalogue) — Leicester City Council. Payments dated 7 July 2024 to 30 September 2026. https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=expenditure-exceeding-500-2026
  • 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 (Sheffield City Council).
  • Sheffield City 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 (Leeds City Council).
  • Leeds City 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 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 (Stockport Council).
  • Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council: licence as the catalogue states it: UK Open Government Licence (OGL) (data.gov.uk record, license_id uk-ogl; version not stated).
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0 (Calderdale Council).
  • Calderdale Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v2 (Calderdale Data Works record license_title).
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leicester City Council).
  • Leicester City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leicester open data portal dataset metadata; the harvested data.gov.uk record states none).

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