Claire Young welcomes cross-party report on ‘damaging’ Family Farm Tax

Liberal Democrat MP Claire Young has responded to a new cross-party report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee, which urges the Government to not only delay controversial changes to family farm inheritance tax but consider alternative schemes that will not harm family farming businesses. 

The report warns that reforms announced in last year’s Autumn Budget were rushed through without proper consultation or impact assessments, creating uncertainty for family farms, land values, tenant farmers, and food security across the UK. The committee recommends delaying final decisions until October 2026, allowing for alternative schemes to be explored. 

Responding to the report, the Thornbury & Yate MP Claire Young said:

“The Government’s disastrous family farm tax has been a hammer blow to many farms up and down the country. I have heard from so many local farmers who are now deeply worried whether their farm will survive this damaging blow.

“The Liberal Democrats have been urging the Government from the very start to axe the family farm tax and protect those farmers who have already been failed so badly by the Conservative Party’s unfair trade deals, rocketing bills and plunging incomes.

“It’s about time the Government started listening to farmers — and that starts by admitting they were wrong and ditching the family farm tax.”