WQ100220 (e) Tabled on 19/08/2026

Will the Cabinet Minister provide any available data on local authority procurement spend, including the percentage of total spend within each local authority area and outside of Wales?

Answered by Cabinet Minister for Finance | Answered on 27/08/2026

The Local Authority spend requested is available in the table below:

 

Organisation

Total Authority Spend

Spend Within Wales

Spend Outside Wales

Spend Within Authority Area

Anglesey Council

£176,141,028

£114,398,054

65%

£61,742,974

35%

£51,785,324

29%

Blaenau Gwent Council

£115,954,900

£69,260,040

60%

£46,694,860

40%

£25,289,488

22%

Bridgend Council

£176,486,131

£128,598,673

73%

£47,887,459

27%

£54,931,434

31%

Caerphilly Council

£318,871,561

£208,576,521

65%

£110,295,040

35%

£79,570,493

25%

Cardiff Council

£777,230,050

£363,072,565

47%

£414,157,486

53%

£234,238,400

30%

Carmarthenshire Council

£440,463,922

£309,489,639

70%

£130,974,283

30%

£186,442,878

42%

Ceredigion Council

£109,829,986

£66,611,903

61%

£43,218,083

39%

£29,296,781

27%

Denbighshire Council

£208,608,925

£118,260,945

57%

£90,347,980

43%

£60,602,628

29%

Flintshire Council

£319,485,593

£162,946,108

51%

£156,539,485

49%

£89,714,693

28%

Gwynedd Council

£279,303,166

£190,436,428

68%

£88,866,738

32%

£101,457,550

36%

Merthyr Tydfil Council

£160,012,756

£106,569,766

67%

£53,442,990

33%

£32,215,794

20%

Monmouthshire Council

£148,782,491

£98,066,292

66%

£50,716,199

34%

£26,002,505

17%

Neath Port Talbot Council

£286,303,931

£176,243,537

62%

£110,060,394

38%

£53,989,161

19%

Newport Council

£246,657,803

£154,072,624

62%

£92,585,179

38%

£56,110,642

23%

Pembrokeshire Council

£263,382,616

£203,879,430

77%

£59,503,186

23%

£113,826,665

43%

Powys Council

£273,146,367

£171,458,240

63%

£101,688,128

37%

£88,432,990

32%

RCT Council

£365,406,250

£261,753,152

72%

£103,653,098

28%

£97,839,520

27%

Swansea Council

£504,260,161

£293,408,920

58%

£210,851,241

42%

£159,390,105

32%

Torfaen Council

£143,677,068

£85,582,622

60%

£58,094,446

40%

£29,198,338

20%

Vale of Glamorgan Council

£219,464,473

£148,345,041

68%

£71,119,432

32%

£54,743,708

25%

Wrexham Council

£258,243,477

£139,154,159

54%

£119,089,318

46%

£79,810,990

31%

Totals

£5,791,712,656

£3,570,184,657

62%

£2,221,527,998

38%

£1,704,890,086

29%

 

Spend Data is Financial Year 2024/25 which is the latest full period available.

All spend provided is where the location of spend is known (supplier has a valid UK postcode). Spend where location is not known (does not have a valid UK postcode) has been excluded. This equates to approximately 3% of the total Local Authority spend. Spend allocated to a location may be subject to minor revisions.

The spend analysis definition of spend in Wales (or spend with Welsh suppliers) is based on the postcode from the invoice address for suppliers being within the region of Wales. 

Spend within Authority is defined as the spend which occurs within the geographic boundary of the authority based on the postcode from the invoice address.

Conwy Council have been unable to provide spend data for this period.

Source: Welsh Spend Analysis System. Data is submitted by Spending Organisations, validated within the system and is then available for analysis by the Data team to provide information on Welsh Public Sector Procurement Spend.