Darlington Council
Unitary authority (E06000005)
Spending in 2024/25
Records held for 2021/22 to 2025/26, of which 1 complete financial year. Figures shown are for 2024/25, the most recent year that reconciles against the published revenue outturn. The check is made after money this body passes to other councils, police and fire authorities, and to central government as the business rates share, has been taken out: a precept, a levy or a rates share is collected on another authority's behalf rather than spent here. Payments to the health service, to colleges, to pension funds and to HM Revenue and Customs are not taken out, because those are things this body bought or owed. Both figures are shown.
This covers what Darlington Council publishes above its threshold, which is a part of what it spends, not all of it. Wages and payments below the threshold are not in it.
Largest suppliers in 2024/25
Payments to named individuals are counted in the total above but never listed here. A linked supplier has a cross council page showing what every council this site holds published about paying it, which is a lower bound and never a total.
Largest spending categories in 2024/25
Categories are the council's own labels, and the largest few only. They do not add up to the total.
Month by month in 2024/25
What we hold
| Financial year | Months held | Records | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 9 of 12 | 12,112 | Part year held |
| 2024/25 | 12 of 12 | 18,262 | Reconciled |
| 2023/24 | 11 of 12 | 921 | Part year held |
| 2022/23 | 2 of 12 | 2 | Part year held |
| 2021/22 | 1 of 12 | 1 | Part year held |
Check these figures against Darlington Council's own published data
Publication
This card compares the rule against the spending files this site holds. It does not check this council's own page. Where the council has published since this site last read its files, this card is out of date, and telling us is one email. Tell us we are wrong .
Behind by one quarter, as held here Latest payment held here: 2026-01-02
Latest payment held here: 2026-01-02. Under paragraph 27 a payment dated 2026-01-02 should have been published by 2026-04-30. We have not confirmed whether the council has published since we last read its files.
Part 2 of the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires spending over £500 to be published quarterly, and not later than one month after the quarter it covers. This council publishes payments over £500, the amount paragraph 28 names.
This site last read Darlington Council's files on 2026-08-30. The council's spending page .
Budget figures
What Darlington Council reported to central government: net revenue expenditure over time, the split by service, where the money came from, its own Band D element and its reserves.
Budget figures for Darlington Council
Budget figures and published payments describe different money over different scopes, and this site never compares one against the other.
The same place on the sister sites
- Darlington Council on UK Demographics Population, housing, schools and health.
Every payment
Every payment this council published will appear here.
This section is not built yet. Nothing is hidden behind it and there is no figure it is standing in for.
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