Birmingham city council has voted to approve spending control measures, as well as endorsing a “financial recovery plan” that is already under way.
The council debated the plan to tackle an estimated £760m equal pay liability before giving the go-ahead for the section 114 notice it issued earlier this month. The notice in effect declared the authority bankrupt and it is now expected to receive a revised emergency budget at another meeting late next month.
The vote came six days after the communities secretary, Michael Gove, announced commissioners are to be sent to run the council as part of a series of drastic emergency measures.
Gove said commissioners would be parachuted into the stricken authority to preside over decision-making,…
