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<p>The Government has allocated over £8 billion directly to councils since the start
of the pandemic, and at the Spending Review the Chancellor announced that councils
are expected to receive an estimated £3 billion of additional support for COVID-19
in 2021-22. This takes the total support committed to councils in England to tackle
the impacts of COVID-19 to over £11 billion.</p><p>For Harlow Council, this means
over £500k of additional unringfenced grant funding next year, on top of over £2 million
of additional funding already allocated, of which over £1.5 million is unringfenced.</p><p>For
Essex County Council, this means over £28.8 million of additional unringfenced grant
funding next year on top of over £153 million of additional funding already allocated,
of which over £84.5 million is unringfenced.</p>
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