Question follow-through · 70960

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, if she will consider the effectiveness of the Family Farm Tax policy.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for National Statistics’ dataset entitled Business demography quarterly, UK Quarter 2 April to June 2025 edition, if she will consider the effectiveness of the Family Farm Tax policy.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Government believes its reforms to agricultural property relief and business property relief from 6 April 2026 get the balance right between supporting farms and businesses, and fixing the public finances. The reforms reduce the inheritance tax advant...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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