AN EXTRA £2.1m of funding will be coming to Wokingham after the borough council complained planned cuts were too severe.

Wokingham Borough Council revealed to the public last year that it had been told to cut £8m from its £113m budget.

Last year's revenue support grant was set at £12m, and councillors originally budgeted to save £4m, but were then told to find more than £2m in additional savings.

Now Westminster has relieved the pressure giving the town £2.1m more than they'd originally planned.

John Redwood, Wokingham's Conservative MP, said: "Following my representations for a transitional relief system and Wokingham’s own submission, I asked the Secretary of State today what action he is taking to help us in his revised settlement.

"He told me the new transitional relief system he has agreed to give Wokingham £2.1m more than the provisional settlement."

The six leaders of Berkshire's Unitary Authorities had joined forces to lobby the government to reconsider the funding model that had seen Wokingham lose 50 per cent of its Revenue Support Grant and Bracknell lose 28 per cent.