Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 51430

Disadvantaged: Rural Areas

Tabled: 12 May 2025
Answered: 16 May 2025

Question

Stuart Anderson

ConservativeSouth Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to tackle pockets of deprivation in rural local authority areas.

Answer

Jim McMahon
The 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement begins to fix the foundations of local government by targeting additional funding to places with greatest need and demand for services (using deprivation as a proxy for this), and less ability to raise incom...

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