Question follow-through · 18304
Stamp Duty Land Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing Stamp Duty for downsizers in (a) Yeovil constituency (b) Somerset and (c) England.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing Stamp Duty for downsizers in (a) Yeovil constituency (b) Somerset and (c) England.
15 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jul 2026
Answer published
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) continues to be an important source of Government revenue, raising around £14 billion each year to help pay for the essential services the Government provides. Abolishing SDLT in any region of the country would be likely to have...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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