Where Did It Go?
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Rochdale Borough Council
Borough council£15,153,187 across 1,833 payments in the archive · retrieved 19 Jul 2026
The Record - what stands out
The single largest payment was £1.7m - 719 times the typical payment of £2,300.
max £1,654,600 / median £2,300 = 719x
22% of the money - £3.4m - went to a single service area: ADULT CARE LCO FUNCTIONS.
£3,375,656 of £15,153,187 = 22%
GMCA received £1.7m - 11% of every pound in this archive - across 9 payments.
£1,716,431 of £15,153,187 = 11%
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.
- ADULT CARE LCO FUNCTIONS 657 payments£3,375,656 · 22%
- EARLY HELP AND SCHOOLS 334 payments£3,299,129 · 22%
- ECONOMY DIRECTORATE 128 payments£3,142,075 · 21%
- PUBLIC HEALTH 82 payments£1,460,409 · 10%
- CHILDREN�S SOCIAL CARE 164 payments£1,298,386 · 9%
- PROPERTY AND HIGHWAYS 111 payments£1,111,979 · 7%
- NEIGHBOURHOODS AND ENVIRONMENT 247 payments£660,298 · 4%
- RESOURCES 95 payments£497,056 · 3%
- BETTER CARE FUND POOLED BUDGET 3 payments£242,358 · 2%
- COMMISSIONING AND STATUTORY 8 payments£54,594 · 0%
- FINANCE 3 payments£7,389 · 0%
- FINANCE CONTROL 1 payments£3,858 · 0%
Biggest suppliers
- GMCA 9 payments£1,716,431
- CRANMER EDUCATION TRUST 1 payments£900,000
- CONLON CONTRUCTION LTD 2 payments£705,773
- ASPRIS CHILDRENS SERVICES 24 payments£620,064
- FUTURE DIRECTIONS CIC 88 payments£504,744
- EVOUCHERS LTD 1 payments£480,000
- FIVE RIVERS CHILD CARE LTD 31 payments£453,980
- POSSABILITIES CIC ISF 109 payments£361,431
- HCRG CARE SERVICES LTD 1 payments£353,477
- NORTHERN CARE ALLIANCE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST 10 payments£317,593
Largest single payments
- GMCAECONOMY DIRECTORATE · 15 Dec 2025£1,654,600
- CRANMER EDUCATION TRUSTEARLY HELP AND SCHOOLS · 05 Dec 2025£900,000
- CONLON CONTRUCTION LTDECONOMY DIRECTORATE · 16 Dec 2025£580,139
- EVOUCHERS LTDPUBLIC HEALTH · 16 Dec 2025£480,000
- HCRG CARE SERVICES LTDPUBLIC HEALTH · 03 Dec 2025£353,477
- NORTHERN CARE ALLIANCE NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTADULT CARE LCO FUNCTIONS · 16 Dec 2025£263,316
- YOUR TRUST CHARITYPUBLIC HEALTH · 03 Dec 2025£255,173
- MANCHESTER CITY COUNCILRESOURCES · 15 Dec 2025£218,603
- DRAX ENERGY SOLUTIONS LTDPROPERTY AND HIGHWAYS · 23 Dec 2025£181,024
- TITUS LEARNING LTDEARLY HELP AND SCHOOLS · 09 Dec 2025£133,000
- FLOOD CONTROL NI LTDECONOMY DIRECTORATE · 29 Dec 2025£131,604
- CONLON CONTRUCTION LTDECONOMY DIRECTORATE · 16 Dec 2025£125,634
- MILLBROOK HEALTHCARE LTDBETTER CARE FUND POOLED BUDGET · 19 Dec 2025£123,760
- CHANNEL 3 CONSULTING LTDADULT CARE LCO FUNCTIONS · 05 Dec 2025£108,082
- A AND T SURFACING LTDPROPERTY AND HIGHWAYS · 01 Dec 2025£104,889
- FLOOD CONTROL NI LTDECONOMY DIRECTORATE · 05 Dec 2025£102,591
- CROMWOOD LTDNEIGHBOURHOODS AND ENVIRONMENT · 19 Dec 2025£94,996
- NHS GREATER MANCHESTER ICBBETTER CARE FUND POOLED BUDGET · 29 Dec 2025£88,858
- BIG LIFE SERVICES LIMITEDECONOMY DIRECTORATE · 02 Dec 2025£87,152
- BIG LIFE SERVICES LIMITEDPUBLIC HEALTH · 02 Dec 2025£77,980
Source: Rochdale Borough 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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