Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 87672

Utilities: Rural Areas

Tabled: 3 November 2025

Answered: 12 November 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the relationship between access to core utilities and population retention in remote rural areas.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

Rural policy is a devolved matter. Defra regularly publishes statistics on a range of social and economic topics including rural population trends, and rural service provision in The Statistical Digest for Rural England. Net internal migration within Engl...

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