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Exceptional Financial Support over three years as a share of net revenue expenditure

Lower is better. One of the measures behind the government bailouts score; councils are listed by their rank on it alone, which is not their overall rank. The median of the 130 is 0.0%.

Sum of EFS agreed for the last three financial years / net revenue expenditure. 0 = none.

Exceptional Financial Support over three years as a share of net revenue expenditure by council
Rank	Council	Exceptional Financial Support over three years as a share of net revenue expenditure	Type
=1	Barking and Dagenham	0.0%	London borough
=1	Barnsley	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Bath and North East Somerset	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Bexley	0.0%	London borough
=1	Blackburn with Darwen	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Blackpool	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Bolton	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Bracknell Forest	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Brent	0.0%	London borough
=1	Bristol, City of	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Bromley	0.0%	London borough
=1	Buckinghamshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Bury	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Calderdale	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Camden	0.0%	London borough
=1	Central Bedfordshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Cheshire West and Chester	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Cornwall	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	County Durham	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Coventry	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Darlington	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Derby	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Doncaster	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Dorset	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Ealing	0.0%	London borough
=1	East Riding of Yorkshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Gateshead	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Greenwich	0.0%	London borough
=1	Hackney	0.0%	London borough
=1	Hammersmith and Fulham	0.0%	London borough
=1	Harrow	0.0%	London borough
=1	Hartlepool	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Herefordshire, County of	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Hounslow	0.0%	London borough
=1	Islington	0.0%	London borough
=1	Kensington and Chelsea	0.0%	London borough
=1	Kingston upon Hull, City of	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Kingston upon Thames	0.0%	London borough
=1	Kirklees	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Knowsley	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Leeds	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Leicester	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Lewisham	0.0%	London borough
=1	Liverpool	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Luton	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Manchester	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Merton	0.0%	London borough
=1	Milton Keynes	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Newcastle upon Tyne	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	North East Lincolnshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	North Lincolnshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	North Northamptonshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	North Somerset	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	North Tyneside	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	North Yorkshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Northumberland	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Oldham	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Portsmouth	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Reading	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Richmond upon Thames	0.0%	London borough
=1	Rochdale	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Rotherham	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Rutland	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Salford	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Sheffield	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	South Gloucestershire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	South Tyneside	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Southend-on-Sea	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Southwark	0.0%	London borough
=1	St. Helens	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Stockport	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Stockton-on-Tees	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Sunderland	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Sutton	0.0%	London borough
=1	Tameside	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Telford and Wrekin	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Torbay	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Tower Hamlets	0.0%	London borough
=1	Wakefield	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Walsall	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Wandsworth	0.0%	London borough
=1	Westminster	0.0%	London borough
=1	Westmorland and Furness	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Wigan	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	Wiltshire	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Wokingham	0.0%	Unitary council
=1	Wolverhampton	0.0%	Metropolitan borough
=1	York	0.0%	Unitary council
90	Middlesbrough	1.6%	Unitary council
91	West Northamptonshire	1.6%	Unitary council
92	Sefton	3.6%	Metropolitan borough
93	Brighton and Hove	5.0%	Unitary council
94	Peterborough	5.3%	Unitary council
95	Waltham Forest	6.8%	London borough
96	Isle of Wight	7.0%	Unitary council
97	Wirral	8.6%	Metropolitan borough
98	Trafford	10.0%	Metropolitan borough
99	Enfield	10.5%	London borough
100	Nottingham	12.1%	Unitary council
101	Redcar and Cleveland	12.5%	Unitary council
102	Swindon	18.1%	Unitary council
103	Stoke-on-Trent	19.0%	Unitary council
104	Cheshire East	20.1%	Unitary council
105	Newham	20.2%	London borough
106	Somerset	22.0%	Unitary council
107	Medway	22.4%	Unitary council
108	Solihull	24.8%	Metropolitan borough
109	Redbridge	27.3%	London borough
110	Lambeth	31.0%	London borough
111	Plymouth	37.6%	Unitary council
112	West Berkshire	38.8%	Unitary council
113	Barnet	41.2%	London borough
114	Bedford	42.7%	Unitary council
115	Haringey	47.2%	London borough
116	Halton	50.6%	Unitary council
117	Slough	51.0%	Unitary council
118	Bradford	55.6%	Metropolitan borough
119	Birmingham	59.0%	Metropolitan borough
120	Croydon	69.8%	London borough
=121	Shropshire	74.0%	Unitary council
=121	Hillingdon	84.2%	London borough
=121	Havering	95.9%	London borough
=121	Southampton	108.0%	Unitary council
=121	Warrington	123.0%	Unitary council
=121	Thurrock	126.6%	Unitary council
=121	Windsor and Maidenhead	139.9%	Unitary council

Period: 2024-25 to 2026-27. Source: Calculated from MHCLG Revenue Outturn and Capital Outturn Return, ONS population, MHCLG dwelling stock and planning statistics. Councils with the same figure share a rank, and so do those beyond the 5th and 95th percentiles, because extreme values are capped before scoring (why). How we score

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Cumberland: Revenue Outturn return not received in time for publication
Dudley: Revenue Outturn return not received in time for publication
Sandwell: Revenue Outturn return not received in time for publication

Shown but not ranked

City of London: 1.6%
Isles of Scilly: Revenue Outturn return not received in time for publication