A line chart from the Institute for Government of local authority borrowing as a multiple of spending power, by whether they have claimed exceptional financial support, 2013/14–2024/25, where local authorities that claimed support borrowed a higher multiple of their spending, increasing from 1.37 times in 2013/14 to 2.81 times in 2024/25, while councils that did not claim support stayed in the range of 1-1.63 times their spending across the time period.