Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 84970

Rural Areas: Cost of Living

Tabled: 24 October 2025
Answered: 3 November 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

ConservativeMid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse entitled The R

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Defra regularly publishes statistics on a range of social and economic topics and provides broad comparisons between Rural and Urban areas by settlement type, including assessment on the rural economy, transport, housing and cost of living. These are avai...

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