As Conservatives, we look out for you - delivering results that make a difference to your daily lives, and protecting what makes Hampshire special.
Hampshire Conservatives lead Hampshire County Council, managing a £3.3 billion budget and investing in better roads, good schools, more police stations, and our beautiful countryside.
Here, we collect the highlights of what we have done - and continue to do - across the county.
Hampshire County Council
Hampshire Conservatives lead the county council, which looks after a £3.3 billion budget.
- Hampshire's council tax is the second lowest in England
- In partnership with Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones, 851 more police officers have been funded, with 13 more police stations. Since 2022, crime is down 11%, with vehicle offences dropping by 21%, knife crime by 23%, burglaries by 35%, and anti-social behaviour by 24%
- 93% of Hampshire schools are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted, alongside the largest expansion of SEND places in the county's history
- The biggest ever Highways Recovery Plan has seen the repair of thousands of roads damaged by winter weather
- A new devolution deal has brought £1.4bn of extra funding for Hampshire
Test Valley - Conservative-led
- £18.3m secured from the former Conservative Government with Kit Malthouse MP for Andover town centre is paying for a new theatre and riverside park, upgrades to the Chantry Centre, a new pavilion for Vigo Park, and grants for shop fronts and new businesses
- Andover Health Hub has opened to take the pressure off GP surgeries
- Weekly food waste collections have been rolled out across the borough
- A court injunction to prevent unauthorised traveller encampments in Andover and the surrounding area mean they are now very rare
- The council has succssfully prosecuted 150 fly-tippers
Basingstoke and Deane
When Conservative-led:
- Kept council tax among the lowest in the country and froze the borough's share for 2023/24, which balancing the budget, keeping healthy reserves, and avoiding external borrowing
- Set up a £1m Cost of Living Assistance Fund, later topped up with a further £1m, and protected the Council Tax Support Scheme for low-income households
- Brought rough sleeping down to very low levels through the Social Inclusion Partnership and a Housing First-style approach
- Adopted the 2011-2029 Local Plan, planned Manydown as a mixed community with schools, shops, and green space, and turned Basing View from an aging business park into a modern commercial district
- Kept weekly bin collections throughout, expanded EV charging, backed tree planting and habitat work, and put a further £1m into sustainable energy projects in 2023
- Created the Local Infrastructure Fund, which puts money from development into projects chosen with local communities