{"id":683116,"date":"2026-01-08T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:10","slug":"cumbrian-councils-to-lose-out-in-funding-overhaul-leaders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683116\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumbrian councils to lose out in funding overhaul, leaders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An MHCLG spokesperson said: &#8220;We will make almost \u00a378bn available for council finances next year and will fix the outdated and unfair funding system we inherited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The figure includes the revenue local authorities are expected to raise through council tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, both Cumbrian council leaders accused the government of a &#8220;mistake&#8221; in how it had calculated funding allocations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said a one-off boost to council tax receipts from the introduction of an extra charge on second homes had distorted the government&#8217;s sums about how their income was likely to grow in future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MHCLG would not comment on the supposed error, but it is understood the calculations are based on a five-year average of council tax growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The provisional settlement is subject to a consultation, ending on 14 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MHCLG spokesperson said: &#8220;We will make almost \u00a378bn available for council finances next year and will fix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-683116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115861731684792003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}