Rural Areas: Cost of Living
Commons · Question 84970 · Tabled 24 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Rural Business and the Rural Powerhouse entitled The R
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 3 Nov 2025
Defra regularly publishes statistics on a range of social and economic topics and provides broad comparisons between Rural and Urban areas by settlement type, including assessment on the rural economy, transport, housing and cost of living. These are avai...