Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 26372
Rural Areas: Disadvantaged
Tabled: 24 January 2025
Answered: 3 February 2025
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the suitability for policy-making of existing measures of rural deprivation.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerDefra has contributed funding to investigate rural deprivation as part of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) work to update the English Indices of Deprivation. This collaborative work is considering what deprivation in rur...
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