high
Only 59.5% of spend in the upstream mapping layer is assigned to a budget category.
Lancashire County Council
This page is built from a live canonical ingest of the upstream Lancashire transparency pack, but it is `context only`. None of these totals should appear on public route-specific spending charts unless specific rows are later proven to be tied to asylum accommodation, refugee resettlement, or hotel response.
Immediate pressure points
medium
The upstream mapping layer total differs from the canonical transaction corpus by GBP 127,807,027.84.
note
The upstream budget summary publishes net current expenditure as zero; keep that field separate from other headline measures.
medium
No upstream monthly spending file is present for 2024-08.
medium
7.2% of current transaction spend is tied to supplier labels containing REDACT*.
note
Published reserves are down 17.8% versus 2021/22.
Core numbers
Spend by financial year
Canonical transaction data currently covers two financial years. The upstream monthly series has a visible gap in August 2024, so the corpus should be treated as an observed publication series, not an assumed complete ledger.
Latest month in corpus: 2025-12 with 29,548 rows and £166.1m of spend.
Source coverage
Refresh run completed on 28 February 2026. These counts are direct from the fetched upstream artifact set.
20
Monthly spending files
Raw transaction chunks pulled into canonical NDJSON.
7
Budget and forecast files
Local budgets, GOV.UK outturn, and approved budget plan.
1
Budget mapping files
Observed label-to-budget-category mappings from the upstream pack.
1
Spending support files
Search and indexing artifacts from the upstream publication.
Canonical outputs: spending transactions 753,220 | budget records 114 | mapping records 3,840
Largest suppliers in the current corpus
The current top line already includes materially redacted suppliers, which is why the redaction total is surfaced separately.
| Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|
| REDACTED | £204,603,176 |
| NHS LANCASHIRE & SOUTH CUMBRIA ICB | £163,694,724 |
| LANCASHIRE RENEWABLES LTD | £70,086,012 |
| SUEZ RECYCLING & RECOVERY UK LTD | £57,706,790 |
| LCCG INTERNAL CARE SUPPLIER | £51,247,410 |
| REDACT | £50,399,266 |
| LANCASHIRE SCHOOLS SPC PHASE 1 LTD | £43,304,853 |
| GUARDIAN HOMECARE | £37,944,980 |
| NPOWER COMMERCIAL GAS LTD | £36,170,751 |
| CGL SERVICES LTD | £35,401,867 |
Redacted labels observed: REDACT, REDACTED
Budget drift and tax pressure
Total service expenditure
£2.5bn in 2024-25, up from the first official source year.
Council tax Band D
£1,736 in 2025/26, a 19.2 % increase since 2021/22.
Reserves
£345.0m latest total reserves, with a -17.8% change since the first official source year.
Official service pressure
This is the latest official service breakdown from the budget summary family, not a roll-up of transaction rows.
Central services
92.8% change since the first official source year.
Children Social Care
30.3% change since the first official source year.
Highways and transport services
26% change since the first official source year.
Environmental and regulatory services
25% change since the first official source year.
Observed mapped categories
The budget mapping layer is useful but incomplete. It reflects the upstream mapping artifact and currently differs from the canonical spend corpus by £127,807,028.
Largest unmapped labels
unmapped
Chorley & South Ribble BCF
£134,259,311
unmapped
LRL (Old GRLOL PFI)
£67,218,860
unmapped
PDSI-Direct Payments Direct Cash
£62,062,437
unmapped
BSF Wave 1 Phase 1
£44,302,183
unmapped
Lancashire Concessionary Travel Scheme
£36,720,430
unmapped
Public Min Cost
£35,439,366
unmapped
Energy Recharge
£34,852,536
unmapped
Household Support Fund
£34,561,952
unmapped
PVI Providers 3 & 4 yr olds
£29,968,678
unmapped
BSF Wave 1 Phase 2A
£28,510,949