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HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefI will come to that point later in my speech. When that farmland is gone, it will take with it the livelihoods of families who have devoted generations to feeding our nation and…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I spoke to another farmer in my constituency and his farm is owned by three people, one of whom is his father—who has a third of it—and who has…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefMy hon. Friend is right. I say to the Minister that rather than looking at the issue through a fairness lens or an “attack wealth” lens, it must be in terms of incentives.…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefAt the very least, as my right hon. Friend says and as a colleague touched on earlier, tweaks could be made to this policy to stop the most egregious negative impact of it on…14 Jan 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does she agree that, fundamentally, the only way to secure the rights of tenants is to ensure the buoyant rental market that she is…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefI do. Someone only has to meet farmers to know that farming is already quite a lonely profession, with a high level of suicide anyway and high rates of depression. Combining that…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefI had better make some progress. The hon. Member for Penrith and Solway may have been scolded behind closed doors for doing that, but he will have regained the trust of voters who…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefI will have to press on. Sweden ended up with even, I think, the communists voting to abolish it entirely. Since Sweden scrapped inheritance tax in 2004, entrepreneurship has…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point that has not been made so far: we have among the lowest food costs in the world. In fact, all my local farmers are forever moaning at…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural and Business Property ReliefThe hon. Gentleman is right. The expert valuers who do this for a living have come out with different numbers, but they are all violently different from the Government’s…14 Jan 2025HANSARD Public Finances: Borrowing CostsWe are looking at higher interest rates, lower growth and a higher cost of borrowing to the Government; as my hon. and right hon. Friends have said, we are grateful to the Chief…09 Jan 2025HANSARD Public Finances: Borrowing CostsThat’s not a question.09 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillThe Secretary of State has mentioned previous generations of politicians, and all of us in this House must recognise that we follow in the footsteps of giants. Tony Blair, Lord…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI may not believe that of the Labour party generally, but I would believe it to be possible of the hon. Gentleman.08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillOn that issue, will the Secretary of State give way?08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy right hon. Friend has mentioned pay and power. I think they lie behind the Bill, because the education unions opposed at every step under the last Labour Government and under…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillCan the hon. Lady set out exactly in what way the amendment, which I think is entirely constructive—it accepts the safeguarding element, but challenges the educational vandalism…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillCan the hon. Lady provide a single instance where a child who was in home education—we must remember that children at school spend about 86% of their time out of school—who was at…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillShe was being abused anyway.08 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillDoes the hon. Gentleman have sympathy with parents who feel that they have been let down by the local authority on support for their child with special educational needs, who…08 Jan 2025