Sections · PESA departmental group
Welsh Government
The Welsh Government and Welsh public bodies, including NHS Wales. Welsh councils are counted in Local Government. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £17.3bn on services. £6.9bn of it (39.8%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 65.0% 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
- Welsh Government: 3 of 12 months publishedmeasured
Payment records for 2025-26 cover 3 months: 2026-01, 2026-02, 2026-03.
- NHS Wales and other Welsh bodies
Welsh health boards' and other Welsh bodies' own payments are not collected. The Welsh Government's payments to them are named in its files and not yet matched.
- 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£6.5bnmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welsh Government | 3 | 4,787 | £377m | £4.4bn | £0 | £2.4bn |
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 |
|---|---|
| BETSI CADWALADR UNIV LHB | £620m |
| ANEURIN BEVAN LOCAL HEALTH BOARD | £503m |
| CARDIFF AND VALE UNIV LHB | £426m |
| CWM TAF MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY LHB | £416m |
| SWANSEA BAY UNIVERSITY LHB | £371m |
| HYWEL DDA LHB | £368m |
| MEDR | £260m |
| RHONDDA CYNON TAFF COUNTY BC | £167m |
| CITY AND COUNTY OF SWANSEA | £163m |
| CYNGOR GWYNEDD COUNCIL | £118m |
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Health | £12.7bn | 73% |
| Economic affairs | £1.4bn | 8% |
| Education | £1.3bn | 8% |
| Housing and community amenities | £618m | 4% |
| Environment protection | £366m | 2% |
| General public services | £360m | 2% |
| Social protection | £318m | 2% |
| Recreation, culture and religion | £237m | 1% |
| Public order and safety | £4m | 0% |