Hampshire County Council: Future Services Consultation – Spring 2025

There are just under two weeks left for local people to have their say in Hampshire County Council’s public consultation on proposals to change and reduce some local services and help the Authority address a remaining budget shortfall of at least £97.6 million for 2025/26. The Future Services Consultation – Spring 2025 forms part of our plans to ensure we can focus support to the most vulnerable people in Hampshire while meeting our legal duty to deliver a balanced budget.

If your organisation has already provided views on the proposals – thank you. If you are yet to do so, please be aware that the consultation closes at 11.59pm on Wednesday, 7 May.

Why we are consulting

Prioritising the delivery of vital public services to residents who are most in need is our crucial core function. This includes protecting children from harm, social care for older people, and supporting adults and children with disabilities and additional needs. Demand and costs in these areas are now at record levels, putting immense ongoing pressure on our budgets. Despite having saved over £0.7 billion from our budgets in the last ten years, and continuing to transform how we work, being more efficient, innovative and commercial in our approach to delivering services, this still is not enough, and our budgets simply cannot keep up with that demand.

In the absence of any fundamental change to how central Government funds social care pressures nationally, we continue to seek greater savings ourselves, so we can keep delivering core services (those which we are required to provide by law) to those in Hampshire who need our help the most.  

Therefore, four further savings options are now being proposed and on which we have been encouraging residents to provide their views:

Planned highway maintenance

• Older Adults Day Services
• Post-16 Transport only  
• Both School Transport and Post-16 Transport:  

 Having your say

Views can be provided on some, or all of the four service change proposals presented in the consultation.

There is lots more information about each proposal and details of how to provide feedback on the consultation webpage: www.hants.gov.uk/future-services-consultation

Local MP

Kit Malthouse is the Conservative Member of Parliament for North West Hampshire. First elected as the MP in 2015, he was re-elected in 2017 and again in 2019

Contact

email : kit.malthouse.mp@parliament.uk

OR

Kit Malthouse MP
2 Church Close
Andover
Hants SP10 1DP

Telephone 01264 401 401

Hampshire County Council Representative Mr Chris Donnelly

contact chris.donnelly@hants.gov.uk

Test Valley Borough Council Representative Phil Lashbrook

Throughout my 14 years as your Borough Councillor, I have successfully fought to protect the unique character and individual charm that defines each of our villages.  It is the idyllic and distinctive quality of life that has made our villages so desirable to those seeking somewhere pleasant in which to live.  

Our flood contingency plans, within the Ward, have been held as an example to others.  Working closely with the Police, HCC, Hampshire Fire and Rescue and others, we have introduced measures to provide local community resilience and enhanced community safety.  As the Lead on Road Safety, I have worked to raise awareness and reduce road accidents. 

It has been a privilege for me to serve on; Northern Area Planning Committee, Licensing Committee, Road Safety Council, Rail    Passenger Forum, The IAP, Test Valley Rural Community Safety and Rural Neighbourhood Watch.  

Test Valley and Penton Bellinger have been voted as the most desirable locations within which to live. It is my intention, with your support, to keep it that way.  Contact on e-mail

phil@testvalley.org or telephone 01264 773588.