Earlier this morning Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown visited the Royal Mail Gloucester North Delivery Office in Brockworth to take a look behind the scenes during this very busy time of year and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown welcomes the deal to repurchase the MOD housing estate from Annington and asks if the Treasury are providing the further funds needed to pump-prime the housing refurbishments so desperately needed by our armed forces.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown highlights the impact of the Budget on farming and urges the Government to reverse their changes to inheritance tax which will result in many family farms having to be sold. He raises his concerns about the decrease in investment in the agricultural sector, as well as the number of jobs that might be lost if the Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR) goes ahead.
Following the Government’s response to an Urgent Question on the Budget’s impact on farming communities, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown confronts the Minister with a heartfelt plea he received from a 75-year-old farmer who is angry that this Budget has, in his words, “destroyed everything I have ever worked for.”