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Lord Clarke of Nottingham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 January 2026

Debate

UK Start-up Companies

Contribution

My Lords, if the Government are as keen on entrepreneurship as the Minister keeps suggesting, why did the Chancellor in her last Budget reduce the tax relief for venture capital trusts, which I set up in my last Budget in 1997 precisely to encourage the kind of investment she is so enthusiastic about?

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