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Rural Areas: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the rural premium on rural communities.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
27 Oct 2025
Answer
30 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the rural premium on rural communities.

  2. 27 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Defra regularly publishes statistics on a range of social and economic topics and provides broad comparisons between Rural and Urban areas by settlement type. These are available through The Statistical Digest for Rural England. This Government is committ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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