SaishutsuUK public spending, followed

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Home Office

The Home Office: borders, immigration and policing policy. Police forces are counted in Local Government. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £9.4bn on services. £7.3bn of it (77.4%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 82.1% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.

Reached an identified organisation: £3.3bn (34.7%)Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total: £4.0bn (42.7%)Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body): £446m (4.7%)Not followed: £1.7bn (17.9%)
  • Reached an identified organisation
  • Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
  • Reached people, counted by benefit
  • Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
  • Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
  • Not followed
£9.4bn
spent on services, 2025-26 (PESA 2026, table 5.1)
77.4%
followed (77.4% counting outturn only)
£1.7bn
not followed at all, not even to a named payee
£478m
passed on to other public bodies: counted where they spend it

How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be

  • Below the publication threshold

    Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.

  • Pay: followed to staff as one total£4.0bnmeasured

    Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 8 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.

Where the records come from

Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.

PublisherMonthsRecordsIdentified Named onlyWithheldPassed on
Home Office12 17,897£3.3bn£446m £0£478m

The largest payees not yet identified

Payees paid £5m or more. Named in the records as shown, but not yet matched to a registered organisation or a public body. Some may be public bodies; until they are matched they are counted as followed by name only.

Payee, as published2025-26
AMAZON WEB SERVICES£86m
DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES & LOCAL GOVERNMENT£75m
PREPAID FINANCIAL SERVICES£56m
LA INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER CONSULTANTS LTD£39m
CORPORATE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT (NORTH)£31m
ENTRUST CORPORATION£21m
KAINOS£20m
OMNICOM MEDIA GROUP UK£14m
CT CENTRE (MOD) LTD T/A DSTL£14m
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC£11m

What PESA says this section spends on

Function2025-26Share
Public order and safety£9.4bn100%