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The letter included the key questions on issues such as affordable rural housing and fair funding for rural public services that the Rural Coalition had posed to both candidates for the role of Leader of the Conservative Party in recent months, with an offer to work with the Prime Minister to develop and implement solutions to these important issues.
The letter ends with an offer to work constructively with the Prime Minister and the Government to ensure that measures introduced to tackle the cost of living crisis are properly rural proofed from the outset to ensure that rural areas play their full part in the country’s future prosperity.
The Rural Coalition has also targeted the new Secretary of State at DEFRA, welcoming Rt Hon Ranil Jayawardena to the role, and offering to work closely with him to help support rural communities highlighting the range of challenges that rural service providers face delivering services to sparsely populated rural communities.
This letter also included a number of steps that the Rural Coalition would like the Government to take to help grow the rural economy. These steps are set out below:
Rural Coalition members include: