Posted on Monday 24th November 2025
Chris Large
The County Council’s Cabinet Finance Lead has called for the Chancellor to support good councils, protect vital services and back business, farmers and growth in Staffordshire in her budget on Wednesday.
Chris Large, Staffordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources, said the Government’s Budget is key to shaping the finances of the council, local families and local businesses.
Chris said:
In Staffordshire, we are doing everything we can to make the funding we do have stretch as far as possible to ensure we can support those who really need it but also invest in areas which really matter to people.
We have ambitious plans for the county and have carried out our own efficiency review to help us do even more. We are already delivering programmes such as the Keep Staffordshire Moving highways plan and are now shaping Staffordshire as the economic engine and beating heart of the country to attract more investment to help our towns and communities flourish.”
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is due to deliver her Autumn Budget on Wednesday, November 26 to set out her taxation and spending priorities.
Chris added:
There has been huge speculation about what will and won’t be in Rachel Reeves’ statement on Wednesday and for the council, the devil will be in the detail which comes out in the following days.
We all know the Government has a financial blackhole to fix, but penalising ordinary working people, businesses looking to protect and create jobs and councils doing a good job like Staffordshire shouldn’t be the answer.”