Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Charlie Dewhirst and Lindsay Hoyle

Monday 3rd March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Charlie Dewhirst]

The highest pub in the Yorkshire wolds, the Wolds Inn at Huggate, is a great success story—Mr Speaker, I would be delighted to buy you a pint there the next time you find yourself on the right side of the Pennines—but, like many pubs in my constituency, it faces a crippling rise in non-domestic rates at a time when margins are very tight. Local pubs are not just businesses but much-loved community assets, so will the Minister reverse this tax grab and start supporting the great British local?

[Mr Speaker]

If I return as a missionary, I will bear that in mind.