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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI recognise the strength of feeling on this issue right across the House. We carefully considered the ombudsman’s report, but as the hon. Member knows, we do not think it is fair…03 Feb 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Payment: Pensioner PovertyI will commit to fighting every day to avoid a repeat of the exercise under the last Government whereby pensioner poverty rose by 300,000, having fallen by 1 million under the…03 Feb 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Payment: Pensioner PovertyThe largest campaign to drive up pension credit take-up is now under way, and it will continue in the years ahead. What we are seeing at present is that anyone who made their…03 Feb 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Payment: Pensioner PovertyI encourage all pensioners to consider whether they are eligible for pension credit, but also to look for the wider support that can be provided via the household support fund and…03 Feb 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Payment: Pensioner PovertyThis Government and the important charity that the hon. Gentleman mentions are here for the most vulnerable pensioners. That is why we are targeting the winter fuel payment at…03 Feb 2025HANSARDWinter Fuel Payment: Pensioner PovertyThis Government have run the biggest ever take-up campaign on pension credit, which is worth around £400 on average to those eligible. [ Official Report , 10 February 2025; Vol.…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPensions Regulator: Economic GrowthThat is an important question. The Pensions Regulator does recognise its important role in supporting growth; indeed, it has statutory duties not just to protect savers but to…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPensions Regulator: Economic GrowthThe Government are looking across the piece at how the important work of our regulators supports economic growth, and the Pensions Regulator, which oversees the third largest…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPension Credit Take-upI have heard the hon. Gentleman’s comment and will raise it with the responsible Minister in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, but it is important that all…03 Feb 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefI will make some progress. In 2026-27, up to 520 estates claiming agricultural property relief, including those that also claim business property relief, are expected to pay more…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefI will make some progress and then I will give way. We see a similar picture for business property relief. It is in large part these reliefs that mean the largest estates pay…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefThe point I was making was about the hon. Member’s point that the relief had been scrapped; I was just making the point that the reliefs have certainly not been scrapped and that…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefI will at some length explain why the remarks that the right hon. Gentleman just made—28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefI will not comment on the individual example the right hon. Gentleman gave, but in general he is right to say that there can be large variations in the profits of farms between…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate with you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I congratulate the hon. Member for Caerfyrddin (Ann Davies) on securing this debate and for engaging…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefI thank the right hon. Member for his kind words, even though I cannot agree with everything that followed. I will come on to some of the points that he raised shortly. I think…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefNo, I am going to finish. Communities across the UK, including in rural areas, rely on those things every single day. We have taken these decisions to make the system fairer and…28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefThe hon. Gentleman raises the question of supermarkets. Supermarkets can talk but there is a lot they could do directly to support our farmers—28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property Reliefindicated dissent.28 Jan 2025HANSARD Agricultural Property ReliefI listened to the question and I will make more progress. I have not hidden from what I have heard from individuals across the country about this issue in recent months, including…28 Jan 2025