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...