North Yorkshire Rural Commission

The Yorkshire Post reports on the findings of the North Yorkshire Rural Commission, which it says show “the starkest warning yet of the area’s future policy challenges as a consequence of an ageing society”

The report accuses the Government’s approach to devolution as having focused too heavily on urban areas and less so on rural communities.

It claims that the Government’s oversight is “symptomatic of successive governments failing to understand the breadth of the social and economic challenges facing countryside areas”.

It states that the funding formulae used by Whitehall departments has discriminated against rural Britain to such an extent that it necessitated the creation of this Commission.

The paper calls on the Government to take notice of the recommendations of the commission including the creation of a mutual bank to attract inward investment.

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The Yorkshire Post - North Yorkshire Rural Commission; now Rishi Sunak should respond – The Yorkshire Post says