Kirklees.
Labour Party-controlled metropolitan_borough. £468m net revenue. 23 wards across 5 parliamentary constituencies.
31 May 2026
Labour Party chamber, 2-party MP geography.
Kirklees is a metropolitan_borough controlled by Labour Party (9 of 27 seats). Net revenue is £468m for 2025-26. It covers 23 wards spanning 5 parliamentary constituencies. The MP geography crosses 2 parties — a heterogeneous setup.
Who sits in the chamber.
Labour Party 33% · last contested 2 May 2024
Councillors — the people.
| Councillor | Ward | Elected | |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Alan Longstaff | LD | Almondbury | 2024 |
| James Richard Homewood | Lab | Ashbrow | 2024 |
| Amanda Ursula Pinnock | Lab | Ashbrow | 2023 |
| Aziz Daji | Ind | Batley East | 2024 |
| Zahid Kahut | Ind | Batley West | 2024 |
| Mark Thompson | Con | Birstall Birkenshaw | 2024 |
| Joshua Sheard | Con | Birstall Birkenshaw | 2023 |
| Kathryn Mary Pinnock | LD | Cleckheaton | 2024 |
| Matthew Paul McLoughlin | Lab | Colne Valley | 2024 |
| Alex Vickers | Grn | Crosland Moor Netherton | 2024 |
| Munir Ahmed | Lab | Dalton | 2024 |
| Timothy Vincent Bamford | Con | Denby Dale | 2024 |
Where revenue comes from.
This is a high-council-tax councils (metropolitan_borough): 54% of revenue from council tax, above the cohort median (44%).
Source · MHCLG — Final LGFS 2025-26 Core Spending Power table · derived (CT exact; grants/rates split from SFA baseline)
Band-D bill.
| Council slice | £1,964 |
| County / upper-tier | £0 |
| Police | £263 |
| Fire & rescue | £84 |
| GLA precept | £0 |
| Parish average | £10 |
| Total Band-D | £2,322 |
Parish precepts apply on top, vary by parish
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How does Kirklees 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDACTED DATA | £81.12m | 49.0% | 9,272 |
| BAM CONSTRUCTION LTD | £9.20m | 5.6% | 5 |
| SUEZ RECYCLING AND RCOVERY UK LTD ( | £6.40m | 3.9% | 12 |
| KIRKLEES SCHOOL SERVICES LTD | £5.20m | 3.1% | 49 |
| WATES CONSTRUCTION LTD | £3.58m | 2.2% | 3 |
| LOCALA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS CIC | £3.01m | 1.8% | 13 |
| JLW EXCELLENT HOMES FOR LIFE LTD | £2.65m | 1.6% | 8 |
| CHANGE GROW LIVE LTD (VAT) | £2.16m | 1.3% | 7 |
| PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED | £1.99m | 1.2% | 16 |
| C R REYNOLDS CONSTRUCTION LTD | £1.82m | 1.1% | 14 |
By service area · top supplier
| Service | Top supplier | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate And Central | REDACTED DATA | £8.58m |
| Adult Social Care | REDACTED DATA | £6.83m |
| Education | REDACTED DATA | £2.18m |
| Housing And Homelessness | REDACTED DATA | £1.60m |
| Highways And Transport | REDACTED DATA | £0.36m |
Kirklees’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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spen Valley | 6 | 26% | Kim Leadbeater | Lab |
| Colne Valley | 5 | 22% | Paul Davies | Lab |
| Dewsbury and Batley | 5 | 22% | Iqbal Mohamed | Ind |
| Huddersfield | 5 | 22% | Harpreet Uppal | Lab |
| Ossett and Denby Dale | 2 | 9% | Jade Botterill | 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
17,720 payments · 2 Jan 2026 – 31 Mar 2026
2023 boundaries
Pending ingest at LAD level