Oral Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
“What steps he has taken to reduce delays in processing applications for the basic payment scheme.”
Tabled: 23 April 2018Answered: 26 April 2018
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answer from Hansard
Rachel Reeves
As my hon. Friend will know, in last year’s Budget we got rid of the non-dom tax status, increased capital gains tax, put VAT on private school fees and ended the loophole for private equity, as well as introducing further measures, in order to raise £40 billion. As a result, we are investing £300 billion more than would have been raised under the plans that we inherited from the Conservative party. Ours is the only country where—