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HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxA lot of data has already been published. I mentioned the Chancellor’s letter to the Treasury Committee, and further details on the impact will be published alongside the draft…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxThat is not how I interpret the comment, but I make no apology for the fact that we want to support farmers, as well as making our energy transition and building homes for people…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight the decimation of businesses during the Conservatives’ time in office. Businesses across the economy need stability, public…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxThe data we did not have before the general election was the £22 billion black hole that the hon. Gentleman’s party left in the public finances. He knows that, because it is…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI reassure the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have a lot of respect personally, that we carefully considered how to calibrate the policy to ensure that significant relief from…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxTo address the right hon. Gentleman’s point, we recognise that agricultural and business property relief play an important role in supporting family farms, but the full unlimited…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI would like to make a bit of progress to explain some of the detail behind our policy, which may answer some of the questions that hon. Members are jumping to their feet to ask.…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxWhat I am explaining is that the data for claims through HMRC, which shows the claims made under agricultural property relief and business property relief, is the correct set of…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxIt is not appropriate for me, as a Minister, to give specific tax advice to one family, but I will talk about the general principles behind our reform. In fact, I was about to…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI point the right hon. Gentleman to the letter the Chancellor recently sent to the Treasury Committee, which sets out some of these figures in detail. Some of the confusion that…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “House” to the end of the Question and add: “thanks farmers for their immense contribution to the UK economy and the nation’s food…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxNo. I am going to make some progress. As my hon. Friend the Member for North East Derbyshire (Louise Jones) has pointed out, a range of exemptions need to be taken into account.…04 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsI have been very generous over the past 48 hours in giving way in this Chamber, but I will not. My time is very limited, although I would like to hear more about the plane the…04 Dec 2024HANSARD Employer National Insurance ContributionsI thank all right hon. and hon. Members for their contributions during the course of the debate. This Government were elected with an immediate and critical need to draw a line…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxMy hon. Friend makes a powerful point about the record of the Opposition parties. In our Budget, we made sure to protect the payslips of working people by not increasing income…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI will make some progress. As I was saying, we could not justify leaving the situation unchanged, with a full, unlimited tax relief benefiting a very small number of estates by a…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI will not try your patience, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I feel that my hon. Friend’s intervention relates to the debate in hand, as we have had to take a tough decision on…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out that the Conservative party has no ideas about how the country needs to change, no ideas about how to get the public finances back…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the mismanagement under the previous Government and to how important it is that, through the commitments we made in the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxNo, that is not the case. The Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner), who will be responding at the end of this…04 Dec 2024