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Where Did It Go?

What your council spent, on what, with whom - taken straight from the payments-over-£500 data every council must publish by law. We add nothing: each figure links back to the file the council published. You draw the conclusions.

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Tower Hamlets

London borough

£60,701 across 49 payments in the archive · retrieved 17 Aug 2026

Where it went - by service

The council’s own service areas, largest first.

  • RESOURCES 15 payments£26,488 · 44%
  • PLACE 11 payments£15,789 · 26%
  • CHILDRENS SERVICES 19 payments£15,495 · 26%
  • COMMUNITIES 3 payments£1,930 · 3%
  • HOUSING AND REGENERATION 1 payments£1,000 · 2%

Biggest suppliers

  • CS TESCO GC 3 payments£7,200
  • GREENWOODS HOTEL 2 payments£7,155
  • AMAZON 8 payments£5,866
  • EDF UK CARD PAYMENTS 1 payments£4,051
  • BKG HOTEL AT BOOKING.C 2 payments£3,122
  • SUMUP SNOW CAMP 2 payments£3,000
  • EXPEDIA 72070352688186 1 payments£2,399
  • XACT CONSULTANCY & TRA 1 payments£2,160
  • OYSTER SALES SERVI 2 payments£1,845
  • EXPEDIA 72070352600368 1 payments£1,788

Largest single payments

  • EDF UK CARD PAYMENTSPLACE£4,051
  • GREENWOODS HOTELRESOURCES£4,000
  • CS TESCO GCRESOURCES · 01 Sept 2026£4,000
  • GREENWOODS HOTELRESOURCES£3,155
  • Redacted (personal data)RESOURCES£3,090
  • EXPEDIA 72070352688186PLACE£2,399
  • XACT CONSULTANCY & TRAPLACE£2,160
  • BKG HOTEL AT BOOKING.CRESOURCES£2,012
  • CS TESCO GCRESOURCES · 01 Sept 2026£1,800
  • EXPEDIA 72070352600368PLACE£1,788
  • ONE4ALLRESOURCES · 01 Jul 2026£1,500
  • SUMUP SNOW CAMPCHILDRENS SERVICES£1,500
  • SUMUP SNOW CAMPCHILDRENS SERVICES£1,500
  • CS TESCO GCRESOURCES · 01 Sept 2026£1,400
  • APPRECIATE L2SRESOURCES£1,127
  • BKG HOTEL AT BOOKING.CRESOURCES£1,110
  • OYSTER SALES SERVICHILDRENS SERVICES£1,050
  • VIR NEWSPLACE · 01 May 2026£1,000
  • AMAZON UKHOUSING AND REGENERATION£1,000
  • LONDON DOMESTIC APPLIACHILDRENS SERVICES£999

Source: Tower Hamlets’s published payments data (Local Government Transparency Code). Figures as published; personal-data payees are shown as redacted by the council. No causal claim is made or implied.

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