Rural Services APPG Meets Chief Secretary to the Treasury on Spending Review
On 13th October the Rural Services All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) met Steve Barclay MP The Chief Secretary to the Treasury to raise a number of rural issues ahead of the upcoming Spending Review. The RSN provides Secretarial Support to the APPG Ahead of the meeting the APPG had met to agree the key issues […]
Broadband users in rural areas are being left behind in major network upgrade
Newspapers, including The Telegraph and The Daily Mail, report on warnings from the National Audit Office (NAO) that rural communities are at risk of being ‘left behind again’ in a major upgrade of the broadband network The NAO said the country has made good progress on improving broadband access, with 27 per cent of residents […]
Plan for UK shops to offer cashback without a purchase
The Guardian reports on new proposals from the Treasury designed to safeguard accessibility to cash, which could mean shops would have to offer cashback even if customers do not make a purchase The Government aims to ensure no one is left behind in the move to digital payments, and argues that EU regulations have previously […]
City dwellers idealise Britain’s countryside, but there’s no escaping rural poverty
The Guardian’s social policy editor argues that the pandemic has ‘exacerbated’ inequality in rural areas, and calls for a COVID-19 recovery strategy that ‘integrates town and country’ The article notes that while escaping to the countryside seems to offer an attractive alternative to city dwellers in terms of pollution, poverty, living costs, high rents and […]
Britain’s historic houses are, for the most part, safe — that is not true of the countryside
Former chairman of the National Trust Simon Jenkins writes in Country Life that the Trust is failing in its conservation obligation to the countryside He argues that the new white paper on the future of British planning from the Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick MP (Con) is concerned ‘solely’ with new building, with no reference […]
Rural Lens Review of Plan for Jobs – Protecting, supporting and creating jobs
The RSN has considered the Plan for Jobs and produced a Rural Lens document, setting out potential impacts for rural areas, or highlighting areas where rural communities and their needs should be considered.
Hinterland – 19 October 2020
In Hinterland this week – Brexit is dawning, rural poverty, BT’s charging policy under the spotlight, the care sector and businesses under covid pressure and finally a sad story about the increasing plight facing our much loved hedgehogs… * * * UK food standards: why No 10’s lack of commitment is making farmers furious Coronavirus […]
