Rural Businesses: Taxation
Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee Excerpts(1Â month ago)
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Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab)
I hear very clearly what the noble Lord has said. As I said to the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Prentis, I will make sure that the new Chancellor understands the strength of feeling in this House about the inheritance tax.
Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-Afl)
My Lords, I am very pleased to hear the Minister talk about the whole burden on rural dwellers and farmers. In that regard, can she say how her department is looking to minimise the burden on farmers, not just the tax burden but the regulatory burden, and in particular for those farmers in Northern Ireland, given the differential regulations that occur there?
Windsor Framework (Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals) Regulations 2024
Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee Excerpts(1Â year, 10Â months ago)
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Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP)
It is sacrosanct; it cannot be changed. Yet the reality is that, for this vote, it is being put into the bin and now it must be a simple majority vote. That is despicable, that is disgraceful and those who support it ought to be ashamed.
Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-Afl)
My Lords, I was not going to speak, but I feel I should, given some of the commentary around the House—some of it, quite frankly, was not correct. I am very glad that my noble friend Lord Dodds corrected some of the commentary from the noble Lord, Lord Empey, in relation to 2019. Of course, we know that the reasons we got to 2019 were laid in 2017, in relation to the Prime Minister’s negotiations and how she set the agenda at that time.
One area I will raise again, like other noble Lords and noble Baronesses, is openness and transparency. Again, the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee concluded that wider consultation would have been desirable. I take the point that was made about the level of scrutiny in the other place being fleeting at best. When I read through Hansard for the other place, I was, frankly, shocked at the level of scrutiny that had taken place.