Question follow-through · 74307
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps their Department is taking to implement the guidance entitled The government’s approach to rural proofing 2025, published on 15 May 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps their Department is taking to implement the guidance entitled The government’s approach to rural proofing 2025, published on 15 May 2025.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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23 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government has made a commitment that all policy decision-making should be rural proofed. Rural proofing ensures that rural areas are not overlooked and that the intended outcomes are deliverable in rural areas.Defra leads on rural proofing, but indiv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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