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The minutes were agreed as a correct and accurate record and signed by the chair.

Overview and Scrutiny Officer, Clare Luery noted at the 11 October special meeting, Members raised issues around empty properties. Members had been invited to an informal session on Empty Homes on 9 November which answered some of the points raised. A further session is to be arranged for early in the next year looking at empty commercial and non-residential properties.

Comments raised on the Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy considered at the 11 October 2022 meeting were forwarded to the Safer Durham Partnership.

Overview  and Scrutiny Officer informed the Committee that following questions raised at Committee on 3 November on the effect of Covid on domestic abuse referrals, trends and profiles of domestic abuse victims and details of White Ribbon Day, further information had been circulated on 24 November 2022.