Housing: Rural Areas
(asked on 22nd June 2026) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the percentage of people living in rural areas in England and working in the farming and agricultural sectors able to buy a home in those areas.
Answered by
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
My Department has not made a specific assessment of the percentage of people living in rural areas in England and working in farming and the agricultural sectors able to buy a home in those areas.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' Statistical Digest of Rural England provides a range of statistics covering rural England, including information on housing affordability in rural areas. This can be found on gov.uk, here.