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 Zeichner
Defra 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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