HC Deb 07 July 1997 vol 297 c313W
Mr. Tyrie

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the Government's definition of rural for the purposes of health care provision; and if the definition used is the same as that set out on page 9 of the Department of Health publication of November 1996, Developing Health and Social Care in Rural England. [6960]

Mr. Milburn

There is no generally used definition of "rural" for the purposes of health care provision.