Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Housing and Planning of 20 February 2023, Official Report, column 15, how his Department defines a rural local authority in England.
The department uses the DEFRA rural-urban classification, updated since the publication of this classification for local authority mergers.