[3] The district received borough status in 1992, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.

[4] Since 2011, East Staffordshire Borough Council has been a member of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership.

The whole district is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.

Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows:[9] The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in East Staffordshire.

The building was originally built in 1878 as the St Paul's Institute and Liberal Club, before being given to the old Burton upon Trent Borough Council in 1891 and subsequently converted to become a town hall.

There are two railway stations in the borough, Burton-on-Trent on the Cross Country Route and Uttoxeter on the Crewe to Derby Line, There is also a station serving Tutbury, also on the Crewe to Derby Line called Tutbury and Hatton.

They ceased to operate when East Staffordshire was made a borough in 1992, allowing a district-wide mayor to be appointed instead.