Previous Consultations

Consultation - Have your say on our budget 2025-26

This consultation ran from 19 December 2024 until 2 February 2025.

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service is starting to come under increased financial pressure and asked for your views on its Medium Term Financial Plan as part of a six-and-a-half week consultation.

In order to balance our budget and to fund investment in the Service and in our communities, a Council Tax increase of £5 per Band D household was agreed at the Fire & Rescue Authority meeting on 27^th February 2025 under item 9. The reports and minutes of the Fire authority meeting can be accessed here.

You can still access our budget consultation report and  the Medium Term Financial Strategy 2025-26 to 2027-28 below:

Budget Consultation 2025-26 Report FINAL (pdf 1,264.82 KB)

Budget Consultation 2025-26 Report FINAL (Accessible HTML version)

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Consultation - Have your say on Our Plan and Our Budget

The consultation ran from 2 December 2022 until the 13 January 2023.

Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service (DFRS) asked for your views on its draft Community Risk Management Plan 2023-2026, known as ‘Our Plan’, and its 2023 – 2024 Budget in a six-week consultation.

In order to balance our budget and fund investment in the Service and our communities a 5% increase in council tax in line with proposed government thresholds was agreed at the Fire and Rescue Authority meeting held on 9th February 2023, a summary of the Council Tax levels for 2023/24 can be found here. The results of the CRMP consultation were also reported to the same meeting and no issues arose which required a change to the content of the CRMP. The reports and minutes of the Fire Authority meeting can be accessed here. The final CRMP document will be taken to the Fire Authority meeting on 30th March 2023 for consideration and approval.

You can still access the draft Our Plan 2023-26 and the Medium term Financial Strategy 2023-2024 below:

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