Question follow-through · 99274
Rural Areas: Buckinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's report entitled Rural Economic Bulletin, updated on 10 December 2025, what assessment she has made of recent rural employment trends in Buckinghamshi
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2026 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's report entitled Rural Economic Bulletin, updated on 10 December 2025, what assessment she has made of recent rural employment trends in Buckinghamshi
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Official Statistics Rural-Urban Classification classifies Buckinghamshire as an intermediate urban authority, having between 20% and 35% of its population within rural areas. The Department has employment figures for Buckinghamshire as a whole. Betwee...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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