Productivity: Rural Areas
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps her Department is taking to increase rural productivity.
Answered by Lucy Rigby
The Government allocated a record amount to sustainable farming and food production over this Parliament at the Spending Review 2025. This will boost productivity and protect the natural ecosystems underpinning food production and broader economy activity, and support food and economic security.
On gigabit broadband, the government continues to invest in rollout of digital infrastructure, helping to bring fast and reliable broadband and mobile coverage to hard-to-reach places across the UK, including in rural areas through Project Gigabit and Shared Rural Network.
The government also continues to provide significant consolidated transport funding for local places, beyond our city regions, through the Local Transport Grant.
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