Where Did It Go?
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Rushmoor Borough Council
Borough council£2,581,371 across 662 payments in the archive · retrieved 19 Jul 2026
The Record - what stands out
The single largest payment was £172k - 133 times the typical payment of £1,294.
max £171,860 / median £1,294 = 133x
57% of the money - £1.5m - went to a single service area: Community.
£1,473,190 of £2,581,371 = 57%
Veolia Environmental Services received £750k - 29% of every pound in this archive - across 56 payments.
£750,312 of £2,581,371 = 29%
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.
- Community 263 payments£1,473,190 · 57%
- Environmental Health and Housing 104 payments£330,497 · 13%
- Control Accounts 28 payments£210,657 · 8%
- Information Technology 72 payments£165,224 · 6%
- Democratic Services 82 payments£136,418 · 5%
- Strategy and Communiations 18 payments£57,085 · 2%
- Holding Accounts 11 payments£46,313 · 2%
- Legal 22 payments£46,173 · 2%
- Customer Services 28 payments£45,884 · 2%
- Planning 13 payments£21,784 · 1%
- Director of Resources 1 payments£16,388 · 1%
- Financial Services 11 payments£15,019 · 1%
Biggest suppliers
- Veolia Environmental Services 56 payments£750,312
- Hampshire County Council 11 payments£259,279
- Places For People - Management Fee Only 4 payments£98,783
- P A Gibbs Ltd 4 payments£95,475
- Surrey Heath Borough Council 1 payments£51,126
- Sentinel Housing Association Ltd 2 payments£50,000
- Avalon Promotions Limited 5 payments£40,908
- J K Build Ltd 11 payments£35,148
- Royal Mail 15 payments£29,648
- Austin Fraser 21 payments£28,953
Largest single payments
- Hampshire County CouncilControl Accounts · 07 Mar 2014£171,860
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity£106,176
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity£106,176
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity£65,712
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity£65,712
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity£64,475
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity£64,475
- Surrey Heath Borough CouncilCommunity£51,126
- Places For People - Management Fee OnlyCommunity£42,777
- P A Gibbs LtdCommunity£41,615
- Places For People - Management Fee OnlyCommunity£37,876
- P A Gibbs LtdCommunity£33,068
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity · 09 Apr 2014£31,399
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity · 08 Jul 2014£31,399
- Comms Room ServicesInformation Technology£28,343
- Sentinel Housing Association LtdEnvironmental Health and Housing · 09 Apr 2014£25,000
- Sentinel Housing Association LtdEnvironmental Health and Housing£25,000
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity · 08 Jul 2014£24,697
- Veolia Environmental ServicesCommunity · 09 Apr 2014£24,697
- Hampshire County CouncilHolding Accounts£19,702
Source: Rushmoor 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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