Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Metropolitan District Council
This entity has been marked as a Metropolitan District Council by our team.
Organisations within Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
- Accounts Receivable (R & B)
- AD Finance Contingencies
- Admin Buildings Portfolio
- Admin Directorate
- Admin Info Mgemnt Unit
- Admin IT (Schools)
- AD Overhead
- Adult ACM - North
- Adult ACM - South
- Adult ACM - West
- Adult Social Care Portfolio
- Albert Halls General
- Albert Halls Theatre and Room Hire
- Alexandra Start Well Centre
- Astley Bridge Ward Social Value
- Blackrod CP School
- Bolton Brand
- BoltonOne Leisure
- Bradshaw Ward Social Value
- Breightmet One Off Allocation
- Breightmet Ward Discretionary Element
- Building Support & Portering
- Capital Team
- Care Matters
- Car Parking
- Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme- Fleet
- Castle Hill
- Castle Hill Youth Club
- Chief Exec DLT
- Chief Executives Consolidated Balance Sheet
- Child Prot Leaving Care Team
- Children Services Balance Sheet
- CH Property costs project link
- CH Social Care Projects
- Civic Cleaning
- Cobden Street Community Centre
- Collections Access MUS
- Community Learning Disability Team
- Conference and Reviewing
- Contact & Direct Work
- Corporate Costs
- Council Tax
- Crisis and Resilience Fund
- CRM Operations
- Crompton Place - service charge
- Crompton - Project Support
- CSC Admin Teams
- CSD Cashiers
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Democracy
- Development & Regeneration Capital
- Disability Serv Avondale Street
- Disability Serv Bolton Shared Care
- Disability Serv Trackside Approach
- Districts & Neighbourhoods - HoS
- Divisional Development
- DLT
- Document Solutions
- Dove House
- D&R Building Control (Trading)
- D&R Building Non-Trading
- Elections
- Estates & Property Management
- Events Funding
- EXIT Team
- Family Help
- Family Hubs Grant
- Farnworth Leisure Centre
- Farnworth North Social Value
- Farnworth Start Well and Young Peoples Centre
- FIAT
- Food & Drink Festival
- Fostering & Adopt Adoption
- Fostering & Adopt Family & Friends
- Fostering & Adopt Foster care
- Franking
- GM-Refugee Welcome Programme2025-2027
- Great Lever Ward Social Value
- Gt Lever Start Well Centre
- Gtr Manchester Music Education Hub
- Gym Membership Loan
- Hall I'th Wood Museum
- Harvey Start Well Centre
- Harwood Youth Centre
- Health and Safety
- Health Innovation Bolton (HIB)
- Heaton Fold
- Heywood YP Centre
- Home and Electronic Salary Sacrifice
- Horwich Leisure Centre
- Horwich South & Blackrod Social Value
- HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND
- Housing Benefits
- Housing Strategy Balance Sheet
- HR - Corporate
- Hulton Ward Social Value
- ICES
- ICT Contract
- ICT MFD
- Independent
- Information Governance
- In-House Implementation
- Integrated Commissioning
- Integrated Front Door
- Investment and Development
- IRONMAN Iron Kids & Night Run
- Kearsley Ward Discretionary Element
- Kearsley Ward Social Value
- Kinship Zone
- Laburnum Lodge
- LAC Team
- Land and Property Portfolios
- LD Health Teams
- LD Home Care
- LD Residential Care
- Legal Services
- Libraries - Farnworth
- Libraries - Harwood
- Libraries - High Street
- Libraries - Horwich
- Libraries Info Services
- Libraries - Westhoughton
- LMA Library Mgmt
- LMA Promotions
- LMA Retail
- Local Development Framework
- Local Welfare Provision
- Management Team
- Marketing Agency
- Mayoralty
- MH Dementia and Complex Care Fieldwork Team
- MH Homecare
- MH Management Team
- MH North Fieldwork Team
- MH Residential External Provision
- MH Residential Network
- MH South Fieldwork Team
- Mockingbird Project
- Museum Premises
- Music Serv-Instru & Vocal Teach
- Music Serv-Music Service general
- NCP CCTV
- OA Eldon Street - Extra Care Housing
- OA Extra Care Housing External Provision
- OA - Management Team
- Oldhams Start Well Centre
- Operational Facilities Management
- Operations Team
- Oracle Support Team
- Organisational Development
- Other Buildings Portfolio
- Oxford Grove SWC
- Participation Team
- PD Home Care
- Personnel & Training
- Place Shaping
- Planning Strategy
- Play Management Team
- Prevention Services
- Pride in Place Phase 1 (Farnworth)
- Principal Social Workers Unit
- Programme Activity
- Quality Assurance and Improvement Team
- Queens Park & Central Social Value
- Reablement
- Referral & Assessment Team
- Regional Adoption Agency (RAA)
- Registrars/Civil Funerals
- Res Serv Agency Placements
- Res Serv Mayor Street
- Res Serv Resource Mgmt Team
- Restart
- Rumworth Ward Social Value
- Safeguarding
- Safeguarding Board
- Safeguarding Board/CDOP
- Safeguarding Team
- SECURITY SERVICES
- SENDAS
- Shared Costs AVCs
- SIPs
- Smithills Hall Museum
- Social Inclusion
- Social Work Intermediate Care
- Spatial Data - from GIS
- Start Well - General
- St Matthews Bolton CEP
- System Support and Policy
- TC Strategy - Victoria Plaza
- Technical Innovation Centre
- Telecare
- The Bolton Learning Partnership
- The Leisure Tender
- The Leverhulme Centre
- Tonge Start Well Centre
- Tonge with the Haulgh Ward Social Value
- Trade Union Reps Schools
- Trailblazer - Bolton Employment Hub
- Transformation Team
- Transport Service General
- UKSPF - Creative Bolton Rev
- Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
- Virtual Schools - Educational Support Team
- Voluntary Services Infrastructure Tender Support
- Wellsprings control a/c
- Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill One Off Allocation
- Westhoughton South One Off Allocation
- Wilfred Geere (2)
- Workshop Income
- Youth Management Team
- YOUTH OFFENDING TEAM
- Youth & Sport Project Links
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Expenditure
Monthly
Where the money goes
Updating flow…
High-spend suppliers
Total: £1318.8M
By industry
Supplier sector · all time
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1
Residential care activities
£117.6M
9% share
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2
Services to buildings and landscape activities
£47.9M
4% share
-
3
Publishing activities
£45.9M
3% share
-
4
Social work activities without accommodation
£41.2M
3% share
-
5
Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
£39.1M
3% share
-
6
Human health activities
£29.8M
2% share
-
7
Employment activities
£29.2M
2% share
-
8
Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
£28.4M
2% share
-
9
Real estate activities
£25.2M
2% share
-
10
Construction of buildings
£21M
2% share
-
11
All other industries
£179.5M
14% share
-
12
Unclassified
£713.9M
54% share
By service area
Service area · all time
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1
Chief Executives
£334.7M
25% share
-
2
Adult Services
£270.7M
21% share
-
3
Children's Services
£164M
12% share
-
4
Public Health
£110.8M
8% share
-
5
Environmental Services
£102.2M
8% share
-
6
Development & Regeneration
£90.3M
7% share
-
7
Childrens Services
£67.9M
5% share
-
8
Childrens Services
£64.5M
5% share
-
9
All other areas
£113.7M
9% share
Recent payments out
| Date | Supplier | Amount | Expense area | Expense type | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | £38,471 | Housing GRF | Clients Temporary Accommodation | ||||||||
| Clients Temporary Accommodation | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £672 | Housing GRF | Agency Staff - Other | ||||||||
| Agency Staff - Other | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £549 | Housing GRF | Agency Staff - Other | ||||||||
| Agency Staff - Other | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £2,100 | Highways | Work in Progress Additions | ||||||||
| Work in Progress Additions | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £17,995 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £11,608 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £1,392 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £5,717 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £52,485 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £5,114 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £1,749 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £4,498 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £1,218 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £4,150 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £2,865 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £1,017 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £34,142 | Adult Services | Contracted Services | ||||||||
| Contracted Services | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £883 | Adult Services | Agency Staff - Other | ||||||||
| Agency Staff - Other | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £1,222 | Adult Services | Agency Staff - Other | ||||||||
| Agency Staff - Other | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-31 | £1,227 | Adult Services | Agency Staff - Other | ||||||||
| Agency Staff - Other | |||||||||||
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Recent payments in
| Date | Buyer | Amount | Expense area | Expense type | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-27 | £3,866 | Health and Adult Care (formerly OCO) | Social Community Care Supplies and Services | ||||||||
| Public Health | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-24 | £71,685 | Public Health | Payments to Agencies | ||||||||
| 2026-07-24 | £82,102 | Children & Young People | Social Community Care Supplies and Services | ||||||||
| Adoption Service | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-21 | £6,000 | People (Childrens) | Subscriptions | ||||||||
| 2026-07-21 | £6,000 | Health and Adult Care (formerly OCO) | Social Community Care Supplies and Services | ||||||||
| Quality Assurance & Service Development | |||||||||||
| 2026-07-10 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-07-10 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-07-10 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-07-10 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-07-10 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-07-10 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-07-05 | £3,125 | Children & Young People | Social Community Care Supplies and Services | ||||||||
| Independent Fees | |||||||||||
| 2026-06-25 | £750 | Health and Adult Care (formerly OCO) | Social Community Care Supplies and Services | ||||||||
| Strategic Safeguarding Team | |||||||||||
| 2026-06-02 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-06-02 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-06-02 | £1,100 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-06-02 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-06-02 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-05-07 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
| 2026-05-07 | £550 | People (Childrens) | Grants | ||||||||
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Frequently asked questions
What is the latest spending data available for Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council?
The most recent spending data we have available for Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council is from July 2026. Government departments and public bodies typically publish their spending data on a monthly or quarterly basis.
How has Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council's spending changed over time?
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council's spending has decreased over time. In 2026, they spent £113,086,403, compared to £276,111,812 in 2025 - a decrease of 59.0%.
How much does Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council spend on suppliers?
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council has spent a total of £1,318,771,758 on suppliers according to our records. This spending is distributed across 5641 suppliers.