Question follow-through · 24616
Business: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps she is taking to support rural businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps she is taking to support rural businesses.
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
Prosperous rural businesses will be underpinned by improvements to rural connectivity and productivity, access to public services and a thriving farming sector. To this end, we are restoring stability and investment in our public services as the best way ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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