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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Harlow Council

Council

£498,235 across 13 payments in the archive · retrieved 01 Aug 2026

Where it went - by service

The council’s own service areas, largest first.

Unclassified 1 payments£249,600 · 50%
External Contracts 1 payments£114,220 · 23%
Business Rates 1 payments£45,584 · 9%
Car Park Maintenance 1 payments£43,223 · 9%
Equipment Materials & Maintenance incl.Lighting 1 payments£11,175 · 2%
Security Fees 1 payments£10,091 · 2%
Cost of Insurance Section 1 payments£7,975 · 2%
Statutory Advertising 1 payments£5,092 · 1%
Electricity 1 payments£4,989 · 1%
Cost of Cashiers Service 1 payments£1,989 · 0%
Cost of Income Service 1 payments£1,552 · 0%
Insurance 1 payments£1,425 · 0%

Largest single payments

-£249,600
-External Contracts£114,220
-Business Rates£45,584
-Car Park Maintenance£43,223
-Equipment Materials & Maintenance incl.Lighting£11,175
-Security Fees£10,091
-Cost of Insurance Section£7,975
-Statutory Advertising£5,092
-Electricity£4,989
-Cost of Cashiers Service£1,989
-Cost of Income Service£1,552
-Insurance£1,425
-IT Support and IT Consumables£1,320

Source: Harlow 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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Where Did It Go?

Harlow Council

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