Budget: Implications for Farming Communities

Dave Robertson Excerpts
Monday 4th November 2024

(1 day, 23 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Daniel Zeichner Portrait Daniel Zeichner
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The last farmer I spoke to over the weekend congratulated me on what we were doing.

Dave Robertson Portrait Dave Robertson (Lichfield) (Lab)
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There appears to be a lot of discussion about agricultural property relief on inheritance tax today. Could the Minister confirm what percentage of the farms that claimed more than £1 million of agricultural property relief in the past two years actually received any agricultural income in the past five years?

Daniel Zeichner Portrait Daniel Zeichner
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I will have to go away and get the answer to that, and I will write to him.