Council officers at a West London council mistakenly used the council credit card to make personal purchases for a haircut, podcast subscriptions and greeting cards.
All councils publish larger payments either over £250 or £500 – but if you want to see what the council spends under those amounts on, you must submit a Freedom of Information request. The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) requested all payments under £250 between April 2025 and March 2026.
