A question on #Business #RuralAreas tabled by Wendy Morton on 08-04-2025 has been answered by James Murray.

Heading: Business: Rural Areas
Question ID: 1793342
UIN: 44986
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-04-08
Asking Member ID: 4358
Asking Member display name: Wendy Morton
Asking Member handle: morton_wendy
Asking Member Twitter reference: @morton_wendy
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2025 to Question 40496 on Business confidence in rural communities, what criteria her Department uses to classify a constituency as rural; and whether Aldridge-Brownhills constitue
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Date answered: 2025-04-28
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4797
Answering Member display name: James Murray
Answering Member handle: jamesmurray_ldn
Answering Member Twitter reference: @jamesmurray_ldn
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Answer text: Aldridge-Brownhills is not considered a rural constituency based on ONS 2021 rural-urban census data.The Government does not collect specific constituency level data on business confidence. Recent economy wide surveys from EY, PwC and Lloyds Bank show ove...
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Answering body ID: 14
Answering body name: Treasury
Tweeted: true