Bradford.
Labour Party-controlled metropolitan_borough. £616m net revenue. 30 wards across 5 parliamentary constituencies.
31 May 2026
Labour Party chamber, 2-party MP geography.
Bradford is a metropolitan_borough controlled by Labour Party (14 of 37 seats). Net revenue is £616m for 2025-26. It covers 30 wards spanning 5 parliamentary constituencies. The MP geography crosses 2 parties — a heterogeneous setup.
Who sits in the chamber.
Labour Party 38% · last contested 2 May 2024
Councillors — the people.
| Councillor | Ward | Elected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie Davies | Con | Baildon | 2024 |
| Marcus Peter Dearden | Lab | Bingley | 2024 |
| Geoff Winnard | Con | Bingley Rural | 2024 |
| Paul Sullivan | Con | Bingley Rural | 2023 |
| David Ward | Ind | Bolton Undercliffe | 2024 |
| Suhail Mushtaq Choudhry | Lab | Bolton Undercliffe | 2023 |
| Ismail Uddin | Ind | Bowling Barkerend | 2024 |
| Riaz Ahmed | LD | Bradford Moor | 2024 |
| Rizwan Saleem | Ind | City | 2024 |
| Mozalfa Ilyas | Lab | Clayton Fairweather Green | 2024 |
| Neil Charles Whitaker | Grn | Craven | 2024 |
| Janet Russell | Grn | Craven | 2023 |
Where revenue comes from.
Revenue mix is close to the councils (metropolitan_borough) median: 42% council tax, 42% central grants.
Source · MHCLG — Final LGFS 2025-26 Core Spending Power table · derived (CT exact; grants/rates split from SFA baseline)
Band-D bill.
| Council slice | £1,872 |
| County / upper-tier | £0 |
| Police | £263 |
| Fire & rescue | £84 |
| GLA precept | £0 |
| Parish average | £27 |
| Total Band-D | £2,246 |
Parish precepts apply on top, vary by parish
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How does Bradford split its revenue across services, compared with peer councils (metropolitan_borough)-class councils? Each row is one of the ten standard service buckets. The vertical line at the centre is the cohort median share; the coloured square is where this council sits. Squares to the right of centre mean a bigger share of revenue than the median peer; to the left, a smaller share.
The subtitle on each row (“X% of net spend”) is what share of this council’s revenue goes to that service. The rank (“15 of 61”) is where this council sits within the cohort, sorted by that share descending. The delta (“+26% vs median”) is a relative reading: the council allocates 26% more of its revenue to that service than the median peer would. A small absolute difference can still be a big relative one.
Higher share doesn’t mean waste — it can reflect demographic need (more older residents), rurality, or a policy choice (e.g. keeping a service in-house). Lower share doesn’t mean efficiency — some councils move costs to fees, ringfenced accounts, or grants. £-per-head would be sharper than share-of-revenue; LAD population is pending ingest. Comparisons are within the same council type only.
Every invoice over £500, published under the Local Government Transparency Code. Best-effort, not statutory — counts and totals net negatives (refunds/reversals).
Top by total — last 180 days
| Supplier | Paid | Share | Pmts |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADFORD CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | £63.37m | 24.4% | 42 |
| WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY | £15.86m | 6.1% | 10 |
| INTEGRATED BRADFORD SPV 2 LIMITED | £7.81m | 3.0% | 4 |
| INTEGRATED BRADFORD SPVONE LTD | £4.01m | 1.5% | 4 |
| COMENSURA LTD | £3.96m | 1.5% | 18 |
| BRADFORD DISTRICT CARE NHS FOUNDATI | £3.68m | 1.4% | 20 |
| WEST YORKSHIRE FIRE AND RESCUE | £3.68m | 1.4% | 6 |
| COMENSURA LTD | £3.05m | 1.2% | 11 |
| ASSOCIATED WASTE MANAGEMENT LTD | £2.84m | 1.1% | 57 |
| ASSOCIATED WASTE MANAGEMENT LTD | £2.79m | 1.1% | 31 |
By service area · top supplier
| Service | Top supplier | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Childrens Services | BRADFORD CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | £23.02m |
| Waste And Recycling | ASSOCIATED WASTE MANAGEMENT LTD | £2.79m |
| Corporate And Central | NPOWER (ELECTRIC) YPO CONTRACT | £1.73m |
| Adult Social Care | TURNING POINT | £1.04m |
| Education | KIDS PLANET DAY NURSERIES LIMITED | £0.80m |
Bradford’s territory crosses 5 Westminster constituencies, with 2 MP parties represented. The middle column shows how much of the council each seat carries.
| Constituency | Wards | % of council | Current MP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford South | 7 | 23% | Judith Cummins | Lab |
| Bradford West | 6 | 20% | Naz Shah | Lab |
| Keighley and Ilkley | 6 | 20% | Robbie Moore | Con |
| Shipley | 6 | 20% | Anna Dixon | Lab |
| Bradford East | 5 | 17% | Imran Hussain | Lab |
This council holds 4 Ind and 1 Ind MPs. That’s an unusually heterogeneous geography for a Labour Party-controlled metropolitan_borough — most weeks one MP is asking the council for something and another is praising it.
Sources, methods & last update
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (historic)
Core Spending Power table · 2025-26
vs 35 other councils (metropolitan_borough)
Police, Fire, Parish on top
37,818 payments · 4 Dec 2025 – 30 Apr 2026
2023 boundaries
Pending ingest at LAD level