Oral QuestionDepartment of Health and Social Care

If he will publish a timescale for the implementation of the recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report, published in July 2020.

Tabled: 11 November 2020Answered: 17 November 2020

Asked by

Cat Smith

LabourLancaster and Wyre

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Answer from Hansard

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Dan Tomlinson)

The reforms to business property relief maintain significant relief for owners of business assets. That is beyond what is available to others and is more generous than at any time under Margaret Thatcher, for example, when the rate of relief was a maximum of 50% on all business assets, including the first £2.5 million. I do not think that Conservative Members would argue that we did not see growth in the private sector while Thatcher was in power.