Exceptional Financial Support for local authorities for 2024-25

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In the financial year 2024-25 the previous government agreed to provide 19 councils with support to manage financial pressures via the Exceptional Financial Support process. For 11 councils this included agreement to support for prior years.

Councils were provided with in-principle capitalisation support in February 2024 ahead of their budget setting. This page will be updated with final amounts of capitalisation agreed and capitalisation directions issued once confirmed.

For some councils the support requested and agreed covers prior years. Any subsequent changes to figures are detailed below the original in-principle amount.

Local authority	Exceptional Financial Support requests from local authorities: 2024-25
Birmingham	拢685.0m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: 拢490.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) 拢570.1m agreed in-principle covering: 2020-21: 拢288.4m 2021-22: 拢109.5m 2022-23: 拢172.2m
Bradford	拢140.0m (support agreed in-principle) 拢80.0m for 2023-24
Cheshire East	拢6.0m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: 拢17.6m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) 拢11.6m agreed in-principle for 2023-24
Croydon	拢38.0m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: 拢51.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) 拢9.4m agreed in-principle for 2019-20
Cumberland	拢41.23m (support agreed in-principle)
Eastbourne	拢3.0m (support agreed in-principle) 拢3.0m agreed in-principle for 2023-24
Havering	拢32.5m (support agreed in-principle) 拢18.14m for 2023-24
Medway	拢14.742m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: 拢23.171m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25)
Middlesbrough	拢13.4m (support agreed in-principle)
North Northamptonshire	拢3.9m (support agreed in-principle)
Nottingham	拢41.143m (support agreed in-principle) 拢25.0m agreed in-principle for 2023-24
Plymouth	拢72.0m (support agreed in-principle for a historic accounting correction in 2019-20)
Slough	拢23.078m (support agreed in-principle)
Somerset	拢76.9m (support agreed in-principle)
Southampton	拢121.58m (support agreed in-principle)
Stoke-on-Trent	拢21.7m (support agreed in-principle) 拢20.5m for 2023-24
Thurrock	拢68.6m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: 拢96.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25)
West Northamptonshire	拢6.6m (support agreed in-principle)
Woking	拢95.6m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently reprofiled to: 拢93.6m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) 拢235.1m agreed in-principle for 2023-24