- 11/03/2026
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
The Government extended the parliamentary session to Spring 2026. This had been announced in Parliament in September 2025. Therefore this is the second Finance Bill of the 2024-26 session. On 11 March 2026, the Bill was debated in the House of Commons. There were three votes:
New Clause 11, which would require the Chancellor to undertake and publish an assessment of the potential merits of uprating annually the relief allowance amount for agricultural property by the change in the value of agricultural land, was rejected: Ayes 174, Noes 292.
Amendment 6, which would remove the changes to the thresholds for Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief from the Bill, was rejected: Ayes 175, Noes 292.
The Bill was then read the Third time and passed: Ayes 292, Noes 161