Written questions

Business: Rural Areas

Commons · Question 44986 · Tabled 8 Apr 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 28 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2025 to Question 40496 on Business confidence in rural communities, what criteria her Department uses to classify a constituency as rural; and whether Aldridge-Brownhills constitue

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 28 Apr 2025

Aldridge-Brownhills is not considered a rural constituency based on ONS 2021 rural-urban census data.The Government does not collect specific constituency level data on business confidence. Recent economy wide surveys from EY, PwC and Lloyds Bank show ove...