Department of Health and Social Care: Rural Areas
(asked on 24th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department defines rurality.
This question was answered on 27th February 2020
There is an official statistical rural urban classification, based on the 2011 Census, which determines settlements with populations of 10,000 or more as urban. Further details of the rural urban classification can be found at the following link:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/rural-urban-classification
The rural urban classification is intended to support statistical analysis. Other definitions of rural could be more appropriate in some policy or analytical contexts.