Hampshire County Council Future Services Consultation – Spring 2025

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From 12 March to 7 May 2025, Hampshire County Council asked for people’s views on the future of some local services in a public consultation on options to help the Authority meet a £97.6 million budget shortfall from 2025/26.

The consultation featured proposals in four service areas. Together these could contribute around £9.9 million towards the overall required savings while ensuring that the Local Authority continues to meet the statutory duties it is required by law to carry out. Respondents could share their views on some, or all of them, as they preferred.

You can read more about each proposal:

Consultation analysis

The consultation received 1540 responses via the consultation response form, and 29 emails and letters.

Of the responses submitted 1516 were from individuals, 12 were from democratically Elected Representatives, and 35 from groups, organisations or businesses. The remaining respondents did not provide this information.

Insight Summaries

Written narratives of the key consultation findings for each proposal. They incorporate responses received via the response form, letters, and emails. Read these to help understand the overall view towards the proposal and its impacts, the drivers of agreement and disagreement, and what people feel we should be doing differently in each area.

Data report

Visual high-level view of data submitted via the consultation response form in charts and tables, incorporating the closed tick box questions, the high level themes arising from the comments and data on who responded. The data is shown for each proposal at both an overall level and organised by key demographic groups.

View the Data Report 

Data tables

An Excel file containing all the response form data in table format. Tables drill down to even more detail than the data report for both quantified comments (including sub-categories) and demographic comparisons. Counts (actuals) and percentages are provided.

View the Data Tables

Decision process

The consultation findings will be carefully considered alongside other relevant factors, including operational, financial, policy and legal considerations.

Three Select Committee meetings will be held in July 2025 for elected Members from across the County Council’s political parties to review the consultation results and officer recommendations, together with reports from the County Councillor task-and-finish groups on the consultation process and documents.

On 18 July 2025, Cabinet will carefully consider the officers’ recommendations in the context of the consultation responses, the feedback from the Select Committees and any deputations before making a collective final decision on each proposal.

Papers will be made available to view via the links provided below, from the week before each meeting.

Meeting Date of meeting Future Services Consultation proposals to be considered
Children and Young People Select Committee Monday 14 July Post-16 Transport
School Transport & Post-16 Transport
Health and Adult Social Care Select Committee Wednesday 16 July Older Adults' Day Services
Universal Services Select Committee Wednesday 16 July Planned highway maintenance
Cabinet Friday 18 July All proposals