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Stamp Duty Land Tax (Reduction)

Proceeding contribution from Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 October 2022. It occurred during Debate on Stamp Duty Land Tax (Reduction).

I am grateful to the Minister for the tone of his response, but I am disappointed that it looks as though he will not accept my amendment, not least because it lays the ground to take seriously the points made by the hon. Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double) about proactively tackling excessive second-home ownership and holiday lets. We need to do something now at least to not make the situation worse, and I fear that, unamended, the Minister’s proposals will make things worse. We have been trying to amend the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill in Committee so that there are measures that can control, through planning, the number of second homes and holiday lets in communities such as mine, but we have had no success so far. Will he meet me and others who are concerned to look at how we can table amendments and make proposals through the Treasury that would make a material difference to communities such as mine?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
721 c79 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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