Rural White Paper

HC Deb 15 October 1996 vol 282 cc846-7W

Mr. Spring

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the Government intend to publish their progress report on the Rural White Paper, "Rural England: A Nation Committed to a Living Countryside". [41082]

Mr. Gummer

My right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and I intend to publish the progress report "Rural England 1996" on 24 October 1996. This reports on progress in implementing the commitments made in "Rural England", which we published in October 1995.