Where Did It Go?
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City of York Council
City council£19,067,108 across 3,240 payments in the archive · retrieved 19 Jul 2026
The Record - what stands out
The single largest payment was £599k - 278 times the typical payment of £2,158.
max £598,989 / median £2,158 = 278x
Computed from the published data. Observations, not accusations - the figures are below; you draw the conclusions.
Where it went - by service
The council’s own service areas, largest first.
- Hospital and Mental Health 585 payments£3,112,438 · 16%
- Adult Safeguarding 461 payments£2,604,183 · 14%
- School Delegated Funding 337 payments£1,798,094 · 9%
- Transport 108 payments£1,034,339 · 5%
- Highways 78 payments£941,705 · 5%
- Adult Social Care 645 payments£854,572 · 4%
- Waste 48 payments£781,458 · 4%
- Education Support Services 39 payments£564,988 · 3%
- Station Frontage WYTF 7 payments£481,864 · 3%
- Office of the COO 3 payments£426,656 · 2%
- Bell Farm Modernisation 4 payments£396,207 · 2%
- York Learning 27 payments£378,411 · 2%
Biggest suppliers
- North Yorkshire Council 24 payments£908,768
- First York Ltd 10 payments£565,321
- John Sisk & Son (Holdings) Limited 1 payments£459,483
- Mencap 53 payments£428,685
- City of York Trading Ltd 2 payments£424,506
- Equans Regeneration Limited 1 payments£379,956
- Natwest 1 payments£335,842
- Streamline Taxis (York) Ltd - Large Contracts 15 payments£323,639
- York Museums & Gallery Trust 1 payments£306,710
- Npower 74 payments£290,768
Largest single payments
- North Yorkshire CouncilWaste · 05 Feb 2025£598,989
- First York LtdTransport£459,729
- John Sisk & Son (Holdings) LimitedStation Frontage WYTF£459,483
- City of York Trading LtdOffice of the COO · 04 Sept 2025£423,873
- Equans Regeneration LimitedBell Farm Modernisation£379,956
- NatwestRisk and Insurance£335,842
- York Museums & Gallery TrustMuseums Trust Client · 05 Feb 2025£306,710
- Explore York Libraries & Archives Mutual LtdYork Explore Client£233,846
- Caddick Construction LtdDuncombe Barracks£216,078
- Foss (2008) Internal Drainage BoardHighways£180,260
- NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICBIntegrated SEND services£165,409
- BAM Nuttall LimitedCastle Mills Lock£164,685
- Hobson & Porter LtdGlen Lodge Refurbishment£156,985
- Ainsty (2008) Internal Drainage BoardHighways£146,060
- Exemplar Health Care Ltd - RavensdaleAdult Safeguarding · 04 Apr 2025£125,355
- PBS Construction (North East) LtdSpecial Bridge Maintenance£118,917
- NpowerHighways£103,604
- Human Support Group LimitedCommissioning & Contracts ASC£95,214
- NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICBDevelopment · 04 Sept 2025£92,690
- Ouse & Derwent Internal Drainage BoardHighways£88,303
Source: City of York Council’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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