Six councils are deep in negotiations with the Government in a bid to claw them out of their financial difficulties in the run up to next week’s settlement, The MJ understands.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is in talks and is expected to allow the struggling authorities to use capital cash to prop up their budgets.
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