Exceptional Financial Support for local authorities for 2024-25
Details of support granted to local authorities that have requested Exceptional Financial Support in financial year 2024-25 and the associated external assurance reviews.
Applies to England
In the financial year 2024-25 the previous government has 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 | £685.0m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: £490.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) £570.1m agreed in-principle covering: 2020-21: £288.4m 2021-22: £109.5m 2022-23: £172.2m |
| Bradford | £140.0m (support agreed in-principle) £80.0m agreed in principle for 2023-24 |
| Cheshire East | £6.0m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: £17.6m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) £11.6m agreed in-principle for 2023-24 |
| Croydon | £38.0m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: £51.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) £9.4m agreed in-principle for 2019-20 |
| Cumberland | £41.23m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Eastbourne | £3.0m (support agreed in-principle) £3.0m agreed in-principle for 2023-24 |
| Havering | £32.5m (support agreed in-principle) £21.2m agreed in-principle for 2023-24 |
| Medway | £14.742m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: £23.171m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Middlesbrough | £13.4m (support agreed in-principle) |
| North Northamptonshire | £3.9m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Nottingham | £41.143m (support agreed in-principle) £25.0m agreed in-principle for 2023-24 |
| Plymouth | £72.0m (support agreed in-principle for a historic accounting correction in 2019-20) |
| Slough | £23.078m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Somerset | £76.9m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Southampton | £121.58m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £21.7m (support agreed in-principle) £20.5m agreed in-principle for 2023-24 |
| Thurrock | £68.6m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently revised to: £96.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| West Northamptonshire | £6.6m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Woking | £95.6m (support agreed in-principle) This was subsequently reprofiled to: £93.6m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) £235.1m agreed in-principle for 2023-24 |
Capitalisation directions
Interventions in local authorities
Statutory intervention: Birmingham City Council
Statutory intervention: London Borough of Croydon
Statutory intervention: Nottingham City Council
Statutory intervention: Slough Borough Council