55% of the population of the London Borough of Brent was born outside the UK; the highest % in England*.
In 2025, Brent Council spent:
💷£18m on Passenger Transport (Taxis). 198 of the payments were to Redacted Vendors
💷£9m on 650 blank payments with no ‘Vendor’ name at all
💷 £23m on 8,551 Redacted payments
💷£139m on 31,909 payments for Adult Social Care and Supplies
💷£45m on 3,622 payments for Rent
💷£25m on 14,601 payments for Prepaid Financial Services
💷£16m on Temporary and Agency Staff
💷£9m on HR, and £7m on HR- Training and Conferences
💷£4m to the Buckingham Hotel
This is all according to their published payments, link below.
@PensionsMonkey@DanNeidle@DanNeidle commentary alludes to the £2k limit…”salary sacrifice is being capped to £2,000.” Hopefully this is confirmed as being the case.
@KonstantinKisin Disagree with most here. The commentary did hit hard though… ‘art is powerful precisely because it bypasses the logical brain and hits you in the gut. Not only because emotions are more powerful than reason, but also because art…’ May take me a while to come to terms with this!
To save the British pub industry, we should lobby for Tesla to introduce "pissed mode". Your car crawls home from the pub at 5mph while you're asleep in the back. Only operational between midnight and 2am. A bibulous Welsh ancestor of mine had a horse that could do that.