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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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