Official transparency data · current
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: spending & suppliers
Department for Culture, Media and Sport has £6,695,987,554 of tracked procurement spend across 2,741 published payments to 326 suppliers, from Mar 2025 to Aug 2026.
Excludes £2,544,214,445 paid to other public bodies as funding rather than for goods or services — grant-in-aid and similar. Those payments are held in full and shown in the underlying data, but counting them as procurement would overstate what Department for Culture, Media and Sport actually buys.
Amounts follow each publisher’s own basis — some publish figures including VAT, others excluding it — so totals are not directly comparable between buyers.
£6.7bn
tracked procurement spend
3k
payment transactions
326
suppliers paid
28
contracts expiring (12m)
Top suppliers by tracked spend
The largest recipients of Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s published payments.
See all 326 suppliers
321 more suppliers, each incumbent’s payment history and run-rate, spend trends over time, and the 28 contracts expiring in the next 12 months — inside PSIP.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Department for Culture, Media and Sport spend?
Department for Culture, Media and Sport has £6,695,987,554 of tracked procurement spend across 2,741 published payments to 326 suppliers, covering Mar 2025 to Aug 2026. These figures come from Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s own transparency publications.
Who are Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s biggest suppliers?
The largest suppliers by tracked payment value are shown above. The complete supplier list — all 326 of them, with each supplier’s payment history and monthly run-rate — is available inside PSIP.
How many Department for Culture, Media and Sport contracts are expiring?
Department for Culture, Media and Sport has 28 contracts with an end date in the next 12 months in our records. Which specific contracts, who holds them and what they are worth is inside PSIP — the moment a contract nears expiry is the moment to engage the buyer.
Where does this Department for Culture, Media and Sport spending data come from?
From Department for Culture, Media and Sport itself. UK public bodies are required to publish their payments to suppliers. PSIP ingests those official publications, normalises the formats and matches suppliers to the Companies House register where it can identify a registered company. Every figure traces back to a source publication — nothing is estimated.
Figures aggregated from Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s official transparency publications, with suppliers matched to Companies House where we can identify a registered company. Covered period Mar 2025–Aug 2026. See the full data coverage.