The Combined Fire Authority for County Durham and Darlington Audit and Finance Committee was scheduled to meet on Friday 13 March 2026. The primary item on the agenda was the consideration of the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025

The committee was scheduled to review the Statement of Accounts for the financial year ending 31 March 2025. This report, prepared by the Deputy Chief Executive, would be published in a supplementary agenda. The Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 governs the process for publishing such reports. The Local Government Act 1972 was cited as the legislative basis for the meeting.

The attendees for this meeting were scheduled to include Durham County Councillors Ian Catchpole, Richard Bell, Dawn Bellingham, Christine Blatchford, and David Freeman, alongside Darlington Borough Councillor Andrew Anderson. The meeting was to be held in the Morton Room at Fire and Rescue Headquarters.