Oral Answers to Questions

Jerome Mayhew Excerpts

Wednesday 11th December 2024 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

I join my hon. Friend in that, and I recognise the vital role that hospices play in providing support to people at the end of their life. I understand the challenges that they face. Most hospices receive funding by providing NHS services, and funding will be set out in the usual way.

[Jerome Mayhew (Broadland and Fakenham) (Con)]

Q3. Mr Speaker,“losing a farm is not like losing any other business—it can’t come back.” Those are the words of the Prime Minister, which he said to the National Farmers Union in order to get farmers’ votes. Can he understand why farmers in Broadland and Fakenham and around the country now think that his Administration is duplicitous?

[The Prime Minister]

I think everybody welcomes the £5 billion over the next two years that we put in the Budget—[Interruption.] Opposition Members shake their heads, but we have put in £350 million in the last week alone, compared with the £300 million underspend by the last Government. As the hon. Gentleman well knows, in an ordinary family case the threshold is £3 million, which means the vast majority of farmers will be unaffected.