A question on #RuralAreas #Disadvantaged tabled by Blake Stephenson on 24-01-2025 has been answered by Daniel Zeichner.

Heading: Rural Areas: Disadvantaged
Question ID: 1758605
UIN: 26372
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-01-24
Asking Member ID: 5100
Asking Member display name: Blake Stephenson
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Blake Stephenson
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the suitability for policy-making of existing measures of rural deprivation.
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Date answered: 2025-02-03
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Answering Member ID: 4382
Answering Member display name: Daniel Zeichner
Answering Member handle: danielzeichner
Answering Member Twitter reference: @danielzeichner
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Answer text: Defra has contributed funding to investigate rural deprivation as part of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG) work to update the English Indices of Deprivation. This collaborative work is considering what deprivation in rur...
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Answering body ID: 13
Answering body name: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tweeted: true