Tom Pickup
The Lancashire Pound

Where the council pound lands

When a council spends with a supplier, some of that money stays and recirculates locally, and some of it leaves. This follows each council's published supplier payments and sorts them by how rooted the supplier is in Lancashire. The tiers are an Observatory assessment based on register facts; the underlying spend is the councils' own published data.

What the numbers are. These figures come from each council's published "payments over £500" transparency data. That is not a complete account of any council's budget: it excludes payments below the threshold, and lawfully redacted payments to individuals. Read the tiers as the direction of travel of supplier spend, not as a full budget.
Rooted local Registered office and trading premises in Lancashire, no controlling parent registered outside the county.
Trades here, owned away Trades from Lancashire premises but the controlling parent is registered elsewhere.
Non-local No registered office or trading premises identified in Lancashire.
How tiers are set: method page
Unclassified Not enough register evidence to place the supplier.

Council league table

Each council's supplier spend split by tier. Switch between today's councils and the 2028 unitaries.

Largest suppliers

The biggest supplier relationships by processed spend, with the basis for each tier stated in register terms.

SupplierTierSpendBasis (register facts)
The Preston comparator.

What this is

This is a journalistic publication on the use of public money in Lancashire, published in the public interest. Company profiles sit inside analysis; there is no directory or people-search feature. The privacy notice on the method page covers directors and persons with significant control, the lawful basis for publication, and how to object.

Scores are opinions, not facts

Data is compiled from public registers. Figures reflect the register at the retrieval date shown and may have changed. Scores and indicators are the Observatory's opinion, derived by the published methodology from public data; they are not statements of fact about solvency, creditworthiness or probity. This site does not provide credit or financial advice and must not be used for lending, trading or investment decisions. Transparency spending data covers payments over 500 pounds and is not a complete account of any body's budget.

Corrections

Spotted something wrong? Report it to tom.pickup@lancashire.gov.uk. Reports are acknowledged within 48 hours and re-checked at the primary source; where a figure is wrong it is corrected within five working days and logged. See the corrections policy and the route for named individuals to object.

Sources and licences

  • Supplier payments: each council's published payments-over-£500 transparency data (Open Government Licence v3.0). Not a complete account of any budget.
  • Supplier location and ownership: Companies House, FHRS and VOA register facts.
  • Postcode geography: contains OS data (Crown copyright), Royal Mail data and ONS data, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Published by Tom Pickup in a personal capacity. Not published by or on behalf of any political party or by Lancashire County Council. Inclusion here is not a suggestion of wrongdoing by any person or company.