Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief Debate
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
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Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief
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Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (North Cotswolds) (Con)
Thank you, Mr Speaker, and a happy new year to you and your staff. Farmers in my constituency will welcome this change to the thresholds for APR and BPR. However, it took 14 months to achieve it and rural communities really do feel discriminated against by some of the measures that this Government are taking against them. I ask the Minister to convey to his colleague, the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs, who is sitting on the Treasury Bench, that the Government should not enact any changes to shooting or trail hunting, because to do so would really damage and annoy rural communities?
Dan Tomlinson
We will be going ahead with the changes that were set out in our manifesto and that have been announced recently. I think that that is the right thing for us to do.