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Knowsley Council,
Nutgrove Building
Second Floor,
Westmorland Road,
Huyton,
Knowsley,
L36 9FB
Telephone: 0151 443 4371
Email: [email protected]
We publish a range of accounts and budget information including:
Statement of Accounts
Knowsley MBC's Auditor Appointment Notification
The council's budget
Annual budget reports
Budget setting reports
In early March each year, the council considers a number of reports which it uses as background information to set its annual budget and Council Tax for the year. The reports include:
1. Medium-term financial strategy: This report provides the medium-term financial context against which any budget proposals should be considered. The report also includes the council’s statutory Annual Pay Policy, which sets out the Council’s approach to pay and remuneration.
2. Capital programme: This report presents an update on the council’s planned capital expenditure and the related funding. The report also provides an update on funding allocations and proposals for new capital schemes.
3. Fees and charges: This report seeks approval for the full range of fees and charges across all council services for the coming year.
4. Revenue budget report: This report provides background information for the council to consider in finalising its revenue budget for the coming year.
5. Council Tax Levy: This report provides background information for the council to consider in finalising its Council Tax Levy for the coming year.
All the reports can be found on the agendas for the relevant budget setting meeting of the full council (usually held between 1 and 11 March each year).
Annual Governance Statement
Each year the council’s Annual Governance Statement is reported to the Governance and Audit Committee alongside the Council’s Annual Statement of Accounts. Approved versions of the Annual Governance Statement from previous years can be found on the agenda for the relevant meeting (meeting held in September from 2018 onwards).
The latest draft Annual Governance Statement is here.
External Audit Reports
The council’s external auditors report to the council’s Governance Committee throughout the year. Their reports can be found on the agenda for the relevant meeting.
View the report presented at the latest Governance and Audit Committee meeting.
Education spending
Members' allowances
Local authorities (members’ allowances) (England) regulations 2003
The above regulations require the council to publish details of the allowances paid to individual elected members in any year.
Senior officer expenses
Government Procurement Card spend
The new code requires that the amount of VAT that is not recoverable should be recorded for each item, where applicable. However, we are not able to identify specifically irrecoverable VAT on an item-by-item basis.
Payment of Invoice Performance
As an Authority we have a requirement to publish Payment Performance data under Regulation 113 of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 on an annual basis. The council’s performance is set out in the table below:
Financial Year |
% of valid and undisputed Invoices paid within 30 days |
Interest (£'s) paid to suppliers due to late payment |
Interest (£'s), whether or not claimed, liable to be paid to Suppliers |
2017/18 |
98.86% |
0 |
£22,734 |
2016/17 |
98.61% |
0 |
£46,942 |
2015/16 |
98.71% |
0 |
N/A data required for 2015/16 onwards |
Spending over £500
Every month the council publishes a list of all payments made over £500, showing who was paid, how much, and for what.
Spending, for the purposes of these reports includes that on goods, supplies and services, transport, contracts, and grants but excludes payroll, benefits, financing and investment expenditure.
Payments to suppliers, contractors, sole traders, government, councils, and other public bodies will be shown. However, under the Data Protection Act it excludes payments made to staff, and redacts personal information such as the names of private individuals receiving payments e.g. foster care, council tax refunds.
Monthly spending reports
The reports are listed chronologically by month below, and are freely re-usable under the licence:
2023
- September (XLS format, 386kb)
- August (XLS format, 541kb)
- July (XLS format, 400kb)
- June (XLS format, 3,175kb)
- May (XSL format, 446kb)
- April (XSL format, 476kb)
- March (XSL format, 559kb)
- February (XLS format, 455kb)
- January (XLS format, 600kb)
2022
- December (XLS format, 468kb)
- November (XLS format, 454kb)
- October (XLS format, 435kb)
- September (XLS format, 382kb)
- August (XLS format, 329kb)
- July (XLS format, 424kb)
- June (XLS format, 430 kb)
- May (XLS format, 371kb)
- April (XLS format, 506kb)
- March (XLS format, 574kb)
- February (XLSX format, 458 kb)
- January (XLSX format, 3mb)
2021
- December (XLSX format, 515kb)
- November (XLSX format, 324kb)
- October (XLSX format, 427kb)
- September (XLSX format, 343kb)
- August (XLSX format, 6mb)
- July (XLSX format, 455kb)
- June (XLSX format, 479kb)
- May (XLSX format, 448kb)
- April (XLSX format, 3.19mb)
- March (XLS format, 717kb)
- February (XLS format, 390kb)
- January (XLS format, 471kb)
2020
- December (XLS format, 361kb)
- November (XLS format, 373kb)
- October (XLS format, 476kb)
- September (XLS format, 355kb)
- August (XLS format, 299kb)
- July (XLS format, 275kb)
- June (XLS format, 275kb)
- May (XLS format, 261kb)
- April (XLS format, 344kb)
- March (XLS format, 449kb)
- February (XLS format, 318kb)
- January (XLS format, 398kb)
2019
- December (XLS format, 367kb)
- November (XLS format, 399kb)
- October (XLS format, 464kb)
- September (XLS format, 279kb)
- August (XLS format, 362kb)
- July (XLS format, 305kb)
- June (XLS format, 335kb)
- May (XLS format, 387kb)
- April (XLS format, 372kb)
- March (XLS format, 442kb)
- February (XLS format, 370kb)
- January (XLS format, 405kb)
2018
- December (XLS format, 424kb)
- November (XLS format, 518kb)
- October (XLS format, 431kb)
- September (XLS format, 833kb)
- August (XLS format, 1.12mb)
- July (XLS format, 1.13mb)
- June (XLS format, 376kb)
- May (XLS format, 418kb)
- April (XLS format, 380kb)
- March (XLS format, 625kb)
- February (XLS format, 612kb)
- January (XLS format, 514kb)
2017
- December (XLS format, 524kb)
- November (XLS format, 719kb)
- October (XLS format, 563kb)
- September (XLS format, 543kb)
- August (XLS format, 480kb)
- July (XLS format, 546kb)
- June (XLS format, 568kb)
- May (XLS format, 575kb)
- April (XLS format, 1mb)
- March (XLS format, 693kb)
- February (XLS format, 559kb)
- January (XLS format, 569kb)
2016
- December (XLS format, 730kb)
- November (XLS format, 630kb)
- October (XLS format, 598kb)
- September (XLS format, 525kb)
- August (XLS format, 482kb)
- July (XLS format, 594kb)
- June (XLS format, 698kb)
- May (XLS format, 563kb)
- April (XLS format, 1mb)
- March (XLS format, 811kb)
- February (XLS format, 571kb)
- January (XLS format, 545kb)
2015
- December (XLS format, 695kb)
- November (XLS format, 594kb)
- October (XLS format, 2mb)
- September (XLS format, 1mb)
- August (CSV format, 1mb)
- July (CSV format, 2mb)
- June (CSV format, 1mb)
- May (CSV format, 1mb)
- April (CSV format, 1mb)
- March (CSV format, 2mb)
- February (CSV format, 1mb)
- January (CSV format, 1mb)
2014
- December (CSV format, 2mb)
- November (CSV format, 1mb)
- October 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- September 2014 (CSV format, 1mb)
- August 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- July 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- June 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- May 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- April 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- March 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- February 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
- January 2014 (CSV format, 2mb)
2013
- December 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- November 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- October 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- September 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- August 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- July 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- June 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- May 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- April 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- March 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- February 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
- January 2013 (CSV format, 2mb)
2012
- December 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- November 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- October 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- September 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- August 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- July 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- June 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- May 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- April 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- March 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- February 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
- January 2012 (CSV format, 2mb)
2010/11
- December 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- November 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- October 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- September 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- August 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- July 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- June 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- May 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- April 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- March 2011 (CVS format, 2mb)
- February 2011 (CSV format, 2mb)
- January 2011 (CSV format, 1.4mb)
- December 2010 (CSV format, 2mb)
If you have a question about a specific payment, please include the reference number of the payment, the supplier, the amount you are querying, and the month of the report in your request.
You can submit the information request by following the Freedom of Information process set out on the following webpage
You will receive a response within 20 working days, although we will not release the information if an exemption applies. If the exemption takes the council longer than 20 days to look at, we will give an estimate of when a decision will be made.
© Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
This spending data is licensed under the Open Government Licence.
When you use this information under the Open Government Licence, you should include the following attribution: Monthly Spending Report, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Facilities Time Reporting
2022 - 2023
2021 - 2022
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2019
2017 - 2018
Contracts and tenders
The council advertises electronically tenders and quotes for forthcoming contract opportunities for Knowsley.
The council uses Due North’s The Chest for contract opportunities. Any organisation interested in supplying to Knowsley Council and other councils in the North West can register online to receive email alerts for all opportunities.
Details of the contracts that the council has entered into are recorded electronically in Due North’s contracts register.
Capital reports
These reports details the Capital Programme and phasing of schemes.
Audit of accounts
Pay policy statement
The council has a Pay Policy Statement setting out how it pays and remunerates its employees.
If you have a question about the council’s Pay Policy Statement you should contact:
Head of HR
Knowsley Council
Computer Centre
Westmorland Road
Huyton
Knowsley
L36 9GL
Telephone: 0151 443 2951
Email: [email protected]