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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Birmingham
Metropolitan borough£84,378,162 across 5,000 payments in the archive · retrieved 20 Jul 2026
Where it went - by service
The council’s own service areas, largest first.
- City Ops Directorate 870 payments£29,058,690 · 34%
- Council Management 585 payments£13,457,924 · 16%
- Adults Social Care Directorate 1,598 payments£11,893,148 · 14%
- Strategy, Equalities & Partnerships 15 payments£9,625,809 · 11%
- City Housing Directorate 325 payments£8,843,003 · 10%
- Children and Families Directorate 1,384 payments£8,006,069 · 9%
- Places, Prosperity & Sustainability Directorate 223 payments£3,493,519 · 4%
Biggest suppliers
- Change Grow Live Services Ltd 2 payments£9,423,324
- Tarmac Trading Ltd 4 payments£8,349,337
- Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd 80 payments£7,815,953
- Birmingham Highways Ltd 1 payments£5,935,731
- Volkerfitzpatrick Limited 2 payments£5,298,924
- Veolia Es Birmingham Ltd 5 payments£4,503,687
- Equans Regeneration Limited 3 payments£4,103,295
- Transform Schools Bham Ltd 2 payments£2,458,415
- TravelPerk UK IRL Ltd 2 payments£1,779,852
- Constellia Public Ltd 1 payments£1,644,012
Largest single payments
- Change Grow Live Services LtdStrategy, Equalities & Partnerships · 02 Sept 2024£7,795,572
- Birmingham Highways LtdCity Ops Directorate · 05 Sept 2024£5,935,731
- Veolia Es Birmingham LtdCity Ops Directorate · 26 Sept 2024£3,119,268
- Volkerfitzpatrick LimitedCity Ops Directorate · 26 Sept 2024£2,994,282
- Tarmac Trading LtdCity Ops Directorate · 21 Jun 2024£2,878,628
- Tarmac Trading LtdCity Ops Directorate · 21 Jun 2024£2,316,128
- Volkerfitzpatrick LimitedCity Ops Directorate · 25 Jun 2024£2,304,642
- Hays Specialist Recruitment LtdCouncil Management · 27 Sept 2024£2,110,006
- Hays Specialist Recruitment LtdCouncil Management · 06 Sept 2024£1,958,837
- Hays Specialist Recruitment LtdCouncil Management · 28 Jun 2024£1,946,583
- Equans Regeneration LimitedCity Housing Directorate · 24 Sept 2024£1,859,599
- TravelPerk UK IRL LtdCity Housing Directorate · 17 Sept 2024£1,748,362
- Tarmac Trading LtdCity Ops Directorate · 21 Jun 2024£1,735,975
- Hays Specialist Recruitment LtdCouncil Management · 20 Sept 2024£1,715,395
- Constellia Public LtdCity Ops Directorate · 12 Feb 2025£1,644,012
- Change Grow Live Services LtdStrategy, Equalities & Partnerships · 05 Sept 2024£1,627,752
- Equans Regeneration LimitedCity Housing Directorate · 03 Sept 2024£1,473,338
- Tarmac Trading LtdCity Ops Directorate · 21 Jun 2024£1,418,606
- Transform Schools Bham LtdChildren and Families Directorate · 07 Jun 2024£1,236,619
- Transform Schools Bham LtdChildren and Families Directorate · 05 Sept 2024£1,221,796
Source: Birmingham’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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