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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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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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