Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief Debate
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Anna Sabine
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Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief
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Madam Deputy Speaker
Order. Here is a new year tip: look at your question, cross most of it out, and then continue.
Anna Sabine (Frome and East Somerset) (LD)
In my constituency, we have not just a lot of farmers but a huge number of other businesses and livelihoods that rely on those farmers, and the whole of that rural economy has been negatively impacted over the last 14 months. Will the Minister undertake not just to apologise to communities like mine, but to ensure that the Government will genuinely start listening to rural communities? At the moment, they do not feel listened to, understood by or even cared for by this Government.
Dan Tomlinson
We will continue to listen to rural communities, and to farming communities, to make sure that we can support them as they seek to grow and invest in their businesses in order to improve and support the communities that they are part of. It is because we have been listening to the representatives of farming communities and family businesses that we have come forward with the changes that we think strike the right balance.