Council spending over £250 in 2020–21

The documents below include:

• all individual items we purchase

• payments we make to contractors carrying out work on our behalf

• other spend we incur in carrying out our business

• from September 2019 they will also include the department that made the purchase.

• salaries

• housing benefit payments

• sensitive social services information which could put vulnerable individuals at risk

• personal information, such as the names of individuals receiving payments

• the names of sole traders

• confidential information, such as council tax or business rate refunds.

Payments to suppliers

• Suppliers – these are listed alphabetically. For data protection reasons, where payments have been made to individuals, the names have been replaced with the word 'Redacted'.

• £ Spend – shows the spend made to each supplier for the period. Where there are multiple lines for a supplier this relates to payments by different services within the Council, and therefore some of these lines will include amounts below £250. All amounts displayed are exclusive of VAT.

• Service – shows the individual service groups that the payments were charged to.

• Description – provides details of the type of service that the payment relates to.

Glossary of terms

• EMP – employees

• SUPL – supplies and services

• PREM – premises

• TRAN – transfer payments

• THPP – third party payments.

You can also view the annual statement of accounts and salaries of executive directors.

All Lewisham contracts let over £50,000 are listed on the London Tenders Portal – Contract Register.

Documents