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Where Did It Go?

What your council spent, on what, with whom - taken straight from the payments-over-£500 data every council must publish by law. We add nothing: each figure links back to the file the council published. You draw the conclusions.

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Arun

District council

£1,877,130 across 5 payments in the archive · retrieved 20 Jul 2026

Where it went - by service

The council’s own service areas, largest first.

  • Unclassified 5 payments£1,877,130 · 100%

Largest single payments

  • -£938,565
  • -£569,732
  • -£334,873
  • -£19,339
  • -£14,621

Source: Arun’s published payments data (Local Government Transparency Code). Figures as published; personal-data payees are shown as redacted by the council. No causal claim is made or implied.

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