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 | 拢55.7m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Birmingham | 拢180.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to 拢490.0m (from 拢685.0m) |
| Bradford | 拢127.1m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Cheshire East | 拢25.3m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to 拢17.6m (from 拢6m) |
| Croydon | 拢136.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2023-24, this has been revised to 拢50.0m (from 拢63.0m), and for support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to 拢51m (from 拢38m) |
| Cumberland | 拢23.439m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Eastbourne | 拢2.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Enfield | 拢10.0m (support agreed in-principle) 拢20.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Halton | 拢32.0m (support agreed in-principle) 拢20.8m (support agreed in-principle 2024-25) |
| Haringey | 拢37.0m (support agreed in-principle) 拢28.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Havering | 拢88.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Medway | 拢18.484m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to 拢23.171m (from 拢14.742m) |
| Newham | 拢51.2m (support agreed in-principle) 拢16.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Nottingham | 拢25.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Shropshire | 拢26.9m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Slough | 拢15.709m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Solihull | 拢32.658m (support agreed in-principle) 拢15.615m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Somerset | 拢63.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: Provisionally incudes revised support agreed in 2024-25, subject to final confirmation |
| Southampton | 拢89.9m (support agreed in-principle) Note: Provisionally incudes revised support agreed in 2024-25, subject to final confirmation |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 拢16.8m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Swindon | 拢14.7m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Thurrock | 拢72.0m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2022-23, this has been revised to 拢130.0m (from 拢40.0m agreed in February 2024), for 2023-24, this has been revised to 拢184.0m (from 拢234.5m agreed in February 2024), and for 2024-25, this has been revised to 拢96.0m (from 拢68.6m agreed in February 2024) |
| Trafford | 拢9.6m (support agreed in-principle) |
| West Berkshire | 拢3.0m (support agreed in-principle) 拢13.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Windsor & Maidenhead | 拢41.0m (support agreed in-principle) 拢62.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Wirral | 拢7.5m (support agreed in-principle) 拢20.0m (support agreed in-principle for 2024-25) |
| Woking | 拢74.6m (support agreed in-principle) Note: For support agreed in-principle for 2024-25, this has been revised to 拢93.6m (from 拢95.6m) |
| Worcestershire | 拢33.6m (support agreed in-principle) |
| Worthing | 拢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 | 拢40.0m (support agreed in-principle) |
Interventions in local authorities
Statutory intervention: Birmingham City Council
Statutory intervention: London Borough of Croydon听
Statutory intervention: Nottingham City Council
Statutory intervention: Slough Borough Council