Official transparency data
Department for Education: spending & suppliers
Department for Education has £348,905,419,627 of tracked procurement spend across 935,856 published payments to 22,316 suppliers, from Apr 2023 to Apr 2026.
Excludes £4,742,537,839 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 Education 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.
£349bn
tracked procurement spend
936k
payment transactions
22,316
suppliers paid
281
contracts expiring (12m)
Top suppliers by tracked spend
The largest recipients of Department for Education’s published payments.
See all 22,316 suppliers
22,311 more suppliers, each incumbent’s payment history and run-rate, spend trends over time, and the 281 contracts expiring in the next 12 months — inside PSIP.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Department for Education spend?
Department for Education has £348,905,419,627 of tracked procurement spend across 935,856 published payments to 22,316 suppliers, covering Apr 2023 to Apr 2026. These figures come from Department for Education’s own transparency publications under the Open Government Licence.
Who are Department for Education’s biggest suppliers?
The largest suppliers by tracked payment value are shown above. The complete supplier list — all 22,316 of them, with each supplier’s full payment history and monthly run-rate — is available inside PSIP.
How many Department for Education contracts are expiring?
Department for Education has 281 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 Education spending data come from?
From Department for Education itself. UK public bodies are required to publish their payments to suppliers. PSIP ingests those official publications, normalises the formats and matches suppliers against the Companies House register, so every figure traces back to a source publication — nothing is estimated.
Figures aggregated from Department for Education’s official transparency publications under the Open Government Licence, supplier-matched to Companies House. Covered period Apr 2023–Apr 2026. See the full data coverage.