County Treasurer's

Your County Council

Hampshire County Council provides over 1,240,000 people with vital everyday services including education, social care, roads, waste management, libraries, country parks and museums. It is our job to deliver these services in an open and cost-effective way, acting in the best interests of Hampshire and its citizens as a whole.

Every year, Hampshire County Council:

• Educates over 173,000 school children

• Looks after over 4,200 older people in residential homes

• Maintains over 5,200 miles of roads

• Subsidises 5.7 million passenger bus journeys

• Maintains more than 140,000 street lights

• Delivers youth work through 166 different projects

• Welcomes over 7.5 million visitors to our libraries

• Conserves 11,000 acres of countryside

• Recycles 171,000 tonnes of rubbish

• Answers 25,000 Trading Standards enquiries

• Conducts 4,000 marriages

• Registers 6,000 births

Your council tax helps to pay for these and many other essential services.

After consulting Hampshire residents, the Leader and Cabinet propose how much and where spending is needed. The 74 councillors who have been elected to represent the people of Hampshire make the final decision.

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