Member

The shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Grantham and Bourne (Gareth Davies), and other Opposition Members asked about the figures used for the number of estates affected by the changes. Those figures are HMRC tax data. Many have also repeatedly raised the CenTax report with Ministers in recent weeks. That report, which was carried out by analysts independent from Government, came to conclusions very similar to the figures published by the Government after the Budget on the number of affected estates. That robust analysis has been published, and I and the Government stand firmly behind it.