Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann

Speaking in the House of Commons on 28 October 2025

Debate

Contribution

Absolutely. It does not take much arithmetic to work out the facts of that scenario. In a recent joint letter to the Chancellor, signed by all MPs and peers from Northern Ireland, we set out a clear position: “Agriculture is not simply an economic sector; it is a way of life. The removal or restriction of Agricultural Property Relief will place an unfair and unsustainable burden on family farms, jeopardising their ability to pass on their farms to the next generation and threatening the future of family farming.” Those are not my words alone. They are the voices of rural Northern Ireland, speaking in unison in the House today.

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