Countryside Agency

EDM number 327 in 2002-03, proposed by James Gray on 10/12/2002.

That this House acknowledges that social exclusion is a harsh reality in rural areas; congratulates the Countryside Agency on raising awareness that poverty is increasingly prevalent in rural areas; recognises that unemployment, low income, inadequate housing and amenities and isolation makes life difficult for many in the countryside; and calls on the Government to recognise this publicly, and take urgent action to alleviate and eradicate these problems.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.