Question follow-through · 17856
Agriculture: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the changes to inheritance tax on the financial viability of small family farms in (a) Kent and (b) Faversham and Mid Kent cons
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the changes to inheritance tax on the financial viability of small family farms in (a) Kent and (b) Faversham and Mid Kent cons
6 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
Assessing the impact of the new Inheritance Tax policy, which comes into force from 6 April 2026, relies on a number of factors such as ownership structure and debt levels. Without such information, which the Government does not hold at that level, area l...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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