Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rachel Gilmour and Angela Eagle

Thursday 13th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Rachel Gilmour (Tiverton and Minehead) (LD)]

T2. Under the previous Government, farms were encouraged to diversify to secure their incomes and support rural communities. In the light of this Government’s reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief, many family farms that diversified now face what feels like double taxation—once during business life, and once on succession. Ahead of the Budget, will the Minister urgently press Treasury colleagues to reverse those reforms?

[Dame Angela Eagle]

Again, we understand the pressures that farmers are under. We want to work on creating a productive, profitable and sustainable farming sector, and we will do so.