Sections · PESA departmental group
Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government itself. Its grants to councils are counted in Local Government, where they are spent. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £3.7bn on services. £704m of it (18.9%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 65.9% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.
- 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
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£530mmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 9 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.
| Publisher | Months | Records | Identified | Named only | Withheld | Passed on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 12 | 33,156 | £175m | £1.7bn | £0 | £43.1bn |
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 published | 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| BCP COUNCIL | £131m |
| SWANSEA CITY AND COUNTY COUNCIL | £99m |
| CITY OF SUNDERLAND | £96m |
| NORTH EAST LINCOLN DC | £78m |
| NEATH PORT TALBOT CBC | £69m |
| EAST RIDING OF YORKS | £67m |
| RB KENSINGTON & CHELSEA | £66m |
| MEDWAY TOWNS DC | £55m |
| CYNGOR GWYNEDD | £54m |
| GLASGOW CC | £42m |
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Housing and community amenities | £3.1bn | 85% |
| General public services | £489m | 13% |
| Public order and safety | £36m | 1% |
| Social protection | £28m | 1% |
| Economic affairs | £17m | 0% |
| Recreation, culture and religion | £4m | 0% |