Exceptional financialFinancial supportSupport for local authorities for 2024-25
Details of support granted to local authorities that have requested exceptionalExceptional financialFinancial supportSupport in financial year 2024-25 and the associated external assurance reviews.
- From:
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Published
- 29 February 2024
- Last updated
- 13 March 2025 — See all updates
Applies to England
In respect of 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 frameworkprocess. (EFS). 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
Lambeth Council capitalisation direction 2023-24 and 2024-25 (PDF, 296 KB, 2 pages)
Croydon capitalisation direction 2019-20 (PDF, 261 KB, 2 pages)
Bradford capitalisation direction 2023-24 (PDF, 170 KB, 2 pages)
Stoke-on-Trent capitalisation direction 2023-24 (PDF, 170 KB, 2 pages)
Havering capitalisation direction 2023-24 (PDF, 170 KB, 2 pages)
Assurance reviews
CIPFA local government finance review: Bradford
CIPFA local government finance review: Cheshire East
CIPFA local government finance review: Cumberland
CIPFA local government finance review: Eastbourne
CIPFA local government finance review: Havering
CIPFA local government finance review: Medway
CIPFA local government finance review: Middlesborough
CIPFA local government finance review: Somerset
CIPFA local government finance review: Southampton
CIPFA local government finance review: Stoke-on-Trent
CIPFA local government finance review: West Northamptonshire
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
Updates to this page
Published 29 February 2024Last updated 13 March 2025 + show all updates
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Added directions for Croydon 2019-20 and Bradford, Stoke, Havering 2023-24 (also reflected in table). Added external assurance reviews for Bradford, Cheshire East, Cumberland, Eastbourne, Havering, Medway, Middlesbrough, Somerset, Southampton, Stoke and West Northamptonshire.
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Update history
2025-03-20 15:39
Added CIPFA local government finance review: Plymouth.
2025-03-13 17:23
Added directions for Croydon 2019-20 and Bradford, Stoke, Havering 2023-24 (also reflected in table).Added external assurance reviews for Bradford, Cheshire East, Cumberland, Eastbourne, Havering, Medway, Middlesbrough, Somerset, Southampton, Stoke and West Northamptonshire.
2024-02-29 14:10
First published.