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Housing, Facilities & Environment

Waste collection and treatment, social housing repairs, government estate facilities management and environmental works.

Supplier spend

£30bn

Share of all supplier spend

7.5%

Top 10 suppliers

£7.0bn

Since 2019

+25%

Contract spend trend

+£6.0bn (25%) since 2019

Data sourcesCabinet Office — Contracts Finder (awarded contracts)data.gov.uk API (api.gov.uk)HM Government — Departmental spend over £25,000data.gov.uk API (api.gov.uk)MHCLG — Housing supply statisticsMHCLG APIs (api.gov.uk)Defra — Environmental accounts and statisticsDefra APIs (api.gov.uk)
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields

Main services

  • Waste and recycling

  • Housing repairs

  • Government estate

Bought by Councils, MHCLG, Environment Agency and the Government Property Agency.

Top 10 suppliers

Data sourcesCabinet Office — Contracts Finder (awarded contracts)data.gov.uk API (api.gov.uk)HM Government — Departmental spend over £25,000data.gov.uk API (api.gov.uk)MHCLG — Housing supply statisticsMHCLG APIs (api.gov.uk)Defra — Environmental accounts and statisticsDefra APIs (api.gov.uk)
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields

  1. #1Veolia UK

    £1.3bn

    Waste collection, recycling, energy-from-waste and water services

    London, UK · 4.3% of the area

    • Waste

  2. #2Suez Recycling and Recovery UK

    £1.0bn

    Waste treatment, recycling and collection services

    Maidenhead, UK · 3.3% of the area

    • Waste

  3. #3Biffa

    £0.8bn

    Municipal waste collection and recycling

    High Wycombe, UK · 2.7% of the area

    • Waste

  4. #4Mitie

    £0.8bn

    Facilities management, security and engineering for the government estate

    London, UK · 2.7% of the area

    • Facilities

  5. #5Mears Group

    £0.7bn

    Social housing repairs, maintenance and management

    Gloucester, UK · 2.3% of the area

    • Housing

  6. #6Wates Living Space

    £0.6bn

    Housing planned works, retrofit and repairs

    Leatherhead, UK · 2.0% of the area

    • Housing

  7. #7Vinci Facilities

    £0.5bn

    Estate maintenance and building services

    Watford, UK · 1.7% of the area

    • Facilities

  8. #8Equans UK

    £0.5bn

    Energy services, retrofit and technical facilities management

    Newcastle, UK · 1.7% of the area

    • Energy

  9. #9United Living

    £0.4bn

    Housing refurbishment and infrastructure services

    Sittingbourne, UK · 1.3% of the area

    • Housing

  10. #10Jacobs UK

    £0.4bn

    Environmental engineering and flood defence programmes

    London, UK · 1.3% of the area

    • Environment

Waste contracts are among the longest-running local government agreements, often 25 years.

Retrofit and heat decarbonisation funding has driven rapid growth in housing works.

The Government Property Agency consolidates estate contracts into regional hubs.

Sources