Council spending
What Hastings Borough Council pays out, from the payments it publishes itself: every payment over £250, month by month, since January 2018. £46m left the council's accounts in the twelve months to August 2026.
Read the figures as a floor, and as payments rather than spending. Payments under £250 are not published. Of the 12-month figure, £2.8m is money passing through rather than services bought (refunds of council tax and business rates, refunded income, and holding-account transfers). It is shown here but left out of the supplier rankings. A payment says money left; what it bought, and whether that was good value, is not something this data can tell you.
In the same 12 months the council withheld the payee's name on 370 lines worth £50.9k, mostly payments to individuals, under its own publication rules. Those lines are counted in the totals above, and we don't guess who was paid.
32 published lines carry a date after the council published them (as late as 2096), which can only be a typing slip. They count in the supplier totals, because the money did leave, but in no month on the charts, and the dataset marks them.
Month by month
Payments by the date the council made them, the latest month picked out. A spike is usually a capital payment, such as a vehicle fleet or a building, rather than a change in running costs.
Every month as a figure
| Sep 23 | £2.7m |
|---|---|
| Oct 23 | £2.8m |
| Nov 23 | £2.9m |
| Dec 23 | £2.6m |
| Jan 24 | £2.8m |
| Feb 24 | £3.1m |
| Mar 24 | £3.5m |
| Apr 24 | £3.0m |
| May 24 | £3.3m |
| Jun 24 | £3.1m |
| Jul 24 | £3.2m |
| Aug 24 | £3.1m |
| Sep 24 | £2.4m |
| Oct 24 | £2.9m |
| Nov 24 | £2.8m |
| Dec 24 | £3.5m |
| Jan 25 | £3.3m |
| Feb 25 | £4.4m |
| Mar 25 | £4.0m |
| Apr 25 | £3.7m |
| May 25 | £4.4m |
| Jun 25 | £3.7m |
| Jul 25 | £3.8m |
| Aug 25 | £3.8m |
| Sep 25 | £4.0m |
| Oct 25 | £3.6m |
| Nov 25 | £3.1m |
| Dec 25 | £2.9m |
| Jan 26 | £3.0m |
| Feb 26 | £3.1m |
| Mar 26 | £4.8m |
| Apr 26 | £4.2m |
| May 26 | £3.3m |
| Jun 26 | £6.0m |
| Jul 26 | £4.6m |
| Aug 26 | £3.0m |
Year by year
By financial year (April to March). The current year is drawn lighter because it is not finished.
Every financial year as a figure
| 2017/18 | £5.8m |
|---|---|
| 2018/19 | £20m |
| 2019/20 | £20m |
| 2020/21 | £22m |
| 2021/22 | £25m |
| 2022/23 | £33m |
| 2023/24 | £36m |
| 2024/25 | £39m |
| 2025/26 | £44m |
| 2026/27 | £21m |
What kind of money
The council's own accounting categories for the twelve months to August 2026. 'Capital' is buildings, vehicles and grants for works; 'Third Party' is services bought from other bodies; 'Collection Fund' is council tax and business-rate refunds going back out.
Where it went
The fifteen service areas that received most, as the council names them, in the same twelve months. Refunds and holding accounts are left out here.
Who was paid
The twenty suppliers paid most in the twelve months to August 2026. Names are as the council wrote them. Each name links to everything we hold on that supplier. 982 suppliers have their own page, and the rest are in the dataset. Where the council's file names a person rather than an organisation (often a sole trader or a private landlord), the row says “a named individual”: the payments are counted, and the name is in the council's own file and our dataset, but we don't rank people by name or give them a page.
Search for a supplierThe council's files
Every figure here comes from 100 monthly files published on hastings.gov.uk. The latest three:
All payment lines as a dataset- August 2026 ↗
the council's own file
885 lines - July 2026 ↗
the council's own file
955 lines - June 2026 ↗
the council's own file
871 lines
How this page is made, and what it cannot see
The council publishes a CSV of every payment over £250 each month under the Local Government Transparency Code. We download each file, read its lines, and check our total against the total printed at the bottom of the council's own file. A month whose sum disagrees is still shown, and the disagreement is recorded on the data health page.
Payments are dated by the transaction date on each line, so a file published in February can carry January's payments. Where the council linked the same file from two months, it is counted once.
The per-resident figure divides the 12-month total by the ONS mid-year population estimate for the borough (90,855, ONS mid-2025 population estimate for Hastings borough (Nomis NM_2002_1)). It gives a sense of scale; it isn't what any resident received.
Not visible here: what the council receives (council tax, business rates, grants from government, fees), its budget, or its debt. Those are in the council's statements of accounts. Appearing here says nothing about a supplier's work: a large figure usually reflects a large contract, and the decision behind it is in the council's papers.