Croydon.
Labour Party-controlled london_borough. £445m net revenue. 28 wards across 4 parliamentary constituencies.
31 May 2026
Labour Party chamber, 2-party MP geography.
Croydon is a london_borough controlled by Labour Party (35 of 72 seats). Net revenue is £445m for 2025-26. It covers 28 wards spanning 4 parliamentary constituencies. The MP geography crosses 2 parties — a heterogeneous setup.
Who sits in the chamber.
Labour Party 49% · last contested 5 May 2022
Councillors — the people.
| Councillor | Ward | Elected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeet Bains | Con | Addiscombe East | 2022 |
| Maddie Henson | Lab | Addiscombe East | 2022 |
| Clive Boyd Fraser | Lab | Addiscombe West | 2022 |
| Patricia Hay-Justice | Lab | Addiscombe West | 2022 |
| Sean Eamonn Fitzsimons | Lab | Addiscombe West | 2022 |
| Enid Mollyneaux | Lab | Bensham Manor | 2022 |
| Eunice O'Dame | Lab | Bensham Manor | 2022 |
| Humayun Kabir | Lab | Bensham Manor | 2022 |
| Manju Shahul-Hameed | Lab | Broad Green | 2022 |
| Sherwan Hussain Chowdhury | Lab | Broad Green | 2022 |
| Stuart Collins | Lab | Broad Green | 2022 |
| Ian Parker | Con | Coulsdon Town | 2022 |
Where revenue comes from.
This is a high-council-tax councils (london_borough): 62% of revenue from council tax, above the cohort median (47%).
Source · MHCLG — Final LGFS 2025-26 Core Spending Power table · derived (CT exact; grants/rates split from SFA baseline)
Band-D bill.
| Council slice | £1,990 |
| County / upper-tier | £490 |
| Police | £0 |
| Fire & rescue | £0 |
| GLA precept | £0 |
| Total Band-D | £2,480 |
Parish precepts apply on top, vary by parish
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How does Croydon split its revenue across services, compared with peer councils (london_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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIRIDOR WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED T/A VIRIDOR SOUTH LONDON LTD | £3.85m | 4.2% | 2 |
| ADECCO UK LTD | £3.72m | 4.0% | 4 |
| F M CONWAY LTD_ | £3.48m | 3.8% | 3 |
| REDACTED | £3.31m | 3.6% | 1,247 |
| VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED | £3.03m | 3.3% | 6 |
| ST NICHOLAS EB00000106_ | £1.91m | 2.1% | 2 |
| PROVIDE EQUIPMENT HUB LIMITED | £1.66m | 1.8% | 2 |
| PRIORY EB00000074_ | £1.57m | 1.7% | 4 |
| CHANGE GROW LIVE SERVICES | £1.50m | 1.6% | 6 |
| REDGATES EB00000077_ | £1.42m | 1.5% | 3 |
By service area · top supplier
| Service | Top supplier | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate And Central | REDACTED | £1.26m |
| Housing And Homelessness | WATES | £0.66m |
| Education | KAT TRANSPORT LTD | £0.49m |
| Adult Social Care | MARY S HOME | £0.05m |
Croydon’s territory crosses 4 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croydon East | 8 | 29% | Natasha Irons | Lab |
| Croydon South | 8 | 29% | Chris Philp | Con |
| Croydon West | 8 | 29% | Sarah Jones | Lab |
| Streatham and Croydon North | 4 | 14% | Steve Reed | Ind |
This council holds 2 Ind and 1 Ind MPs. That’s an unusually heterogeneous geography for a Labour Party-controlled london_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 32 other councils (london_borough)
Police, Fire, Parish on top
8,947 payments · 3 Dec 2025 – 29 Dec 2025
2023 boundaries
Pending ingest at LAD level