Exceptional Financial Support for local authorities for 2025-26
Details of support granted to local authorities that have requested Exceptional Financial Support in financial year 2025-26.
Applies to England
In the financial year 2025-26 the government has agreed to provide 30 councils with support to manage financial pressures via the Exceptional Financial Support process. For 8 councils this included agreement to support for prior years.
Councils were provided with in-principle capitalisation support in February 2025 ahead of their budget setting. This page will be updated with final amounts of capitalisation agreed and capitalisation directions issued once confirmed.
This page shows the decisions that were taken to provide councils with Exceptional Financial Support prior to the beginning of the financial year 2025-26. Please note that decisions can relate to prior financial years and can amend the profile of support in those prior years. The pages for previous years have been updated to reflect the most recent decisions.
| Local authority | Exceptional Financial Support requests from local authorities: 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| Barnet | £55.7m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Birmingham | £180.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to £490.0m (from £685.0m) |
| Bradford | £127.1m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Cheshire East | £25.3m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to £17.6m (from £6m) |
| Croydon | £136.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2023-24, this has been revised to £50.0m (from £63.0m), and for support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to £51m (from £38m) |
| Cumberland | £23.439m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Eastbourne | £2.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Enfield | £10.0m (support agreed in-principle) £20.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Halton | £32.0m (support agreed in-principle) £20.8m (support agreed in-principle 2024-25) |
| Haringey | £37.0m (support agreed in-principle) £28.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Havering | £88.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Medway | £18.484m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to £23.171m (from £14.742m) |
| Newham | £51.2m (support agreed in-principle) £16.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Nottingham | £25.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Shropshire | £26.9m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Slough | £15.709m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Solihull | £32.658m (support agreed in-principle) £15.615m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Somerset | £63.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: Provisionally incudes revised support agreed in 2024-25, subject to final confirmation |
| Southampton | £89.9m (support agreed in-principle) Note: Provisionally incudes revised support agreed in 2024-25, subject to final confirmation |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £16.8m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Swindon | £14.7m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Thurrock | £72.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2022-23, this has been revised to £130.0m (from £40.0m agreed in February 2024), for 2023-24, this has been revised to £184.0m (from £234.5m agreed in February 2024), and for 2024-25, this has been revised to £96.0m (from £68.6m agreed in February 2024) |
| Trafford | £9.6m (support agreed in-principle) |
| West Berkshire | £3.0m (support agreed in-principle) £13.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Windsor & Maidenhead | £41.0m (support agreed in-principle) £62.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Wirral | £7.5m (support agreed in-principle) £20.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Woking | £74.6m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to £93.6m (from £95.6m) |
| Worcestershire | £33.6m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Worthing | £2.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
Housing Revenue Account
In the financial year 2025-26 the government has agreed to provide one council, Lambeth, with support to manage financial pressures within its Housing Revenue Account (HRA). The Council was provided with in-principle capitalisation support in February 2025 ahead of their budget setting. This page will be updated with final amounts of capitalisation agreed and capitalisation directions issued once confirmed.
| Local authority | Exceptional Financial Support requests from local authorities: 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| Lambeth | £40.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
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