UK council spending · supplier
Whale Tankers Limited: council payments
4 published councils paid Whale Tankers Limited £936,604 across 24 payments dated 7 March 2025 to 28 July 2026, as the councils publish them in their spending files.
The largest payer was Wirral Council (£487,963).
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.
| Council | Payments | Total | First payment | Last payment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wirral Council | 2 | £487,963.20 | 11 May 2026 | 11 May 2026 | data.gov.uk catalogue, 14 July 2026 |
| City of York Council | 11 | £438,228.99 | 16 April 2025 | 28 July 2026 | York Open Data catalogue, 14 August 2026 |
| Leicester City Council | 7 | £13,041.73 | 7 March 2025 | 30 June 2026 | data.gov.uk catalogue |
| Wakefield Metropolitan District Council | 4 | -£2,629.65 | 3 October 2025 | 15 June 2026 | Data Mill North catalogue |
Totals by month
Payments from every council above, by the month of the date each council publishes.
| Month | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | 1 | £1,089.09 |
| April 2025 | 2 | £2,787.59 |
| July 2025 | 2 | £1,429.90 |
| October 2025 | 1 | -£4,256.33 |
| December 2025 | 4 | £2,773.33 |
| February 2026 | 2 | £7,322.72 |
| March 2026 | 2 | £1,117.91 |
| April 2026 | 2 | £212,921.00 |
| May 2026 | 4 | £700,884.20 |
| June 2026 | 3 | £7,557.01 |
| July 2026 | 1 | £2,977.85 |
- 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.
Top expense types
How the councils label these payments, largest first.
| Expense type | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| not published | 2 | £487,963.20 |
| Plant & Equipment Purchase | 4 | £425,842.00 |
| Vehicle Subcontractor Work | 6 | £11,952.64 |
| Operational Materials | 3 | £7,775.21 |
| Operational Equipment | 1 | £2,977.85 |
| Repairs and Maintenance (Roads and Fwys) | 3 | £1,633.93 |
| Vehicles Repairs & Maintenance / Parts & Accessories | 1 | £1,089.09 |
| Commercial Vehicle Bodybuilders & Repairers | 4 | -£2,629.65 |
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 identifier | Value | Where from |
|---|---|---|
| Name as published | Whale Tankers Limited | 11 payments |
| Name as published | Whale Tankers Ltd | 9 payments |
| Name as published | WHALE TANKERS LTD | 4 payments |
| Companies House number | 04251423 | published 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
- Wirral Council spending files (data.gov.uk catalogue) — Wirral Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 29 May 2026, source date 2026-07-14. https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=https-www-wirral-gov-uk-about-council-budgets-and-spending-payments-suppliers-and-agents
- 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
- 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
- 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 (Wirral Council).
- Wirral 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 (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 (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).
- 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).
Get this data from the API
The same figures, with provenance on every value, from the API (free API key, reference).
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