Oral QuestionDepartment for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

“What steps his Department is taking to provide (a) tools and (b) funding to help local leaders deliver services.”

Tabled: 15 November 2022Answered: 21 November 2022

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Answer from Hansard

The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rachel Reeves)

The Government are better targeting these reliefs to make them fairer. The latest figures for 2021-22 show that the top 7% of claims are counted for 40% of the total value of agricultural property relief.