Council spending

Read this before drawing conclusions. Categories and descriptions are the council’s own free-text finance-system labels, not a standard classification, and can vary in wording month to month. Amounts can include VAT, and can be negative — a credit, refund, or correction, not a second payment. A large figure against an organisation like the Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority is what the council paid to that body, not a breakdown of what it then spent the money on — that’s a separate public dataset. Publication itself lags real time by a couple of months, and loading each new month here is a manual step, so “up to date” means up to whichever month is listed above, not today.

1,196 transactions totalling £2,211,843.63 went to named individuals rather than companies — direct payments for care, foster carers, and similar — and the council itself withholds the name for their privacy. Counted in the totals below, left out of the suppliers list, since “Redacted personal data” isn’t a real supplier.