Issue - meetings
Response to Council motion on changes to inheritance tax
Meeting: 21/01/2025 - Cabinet (Item 14)
14 Cabinet response to motion on changes to inheritance tax and other farming matters 
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Forward Plan Ref: 2024/372
Contact: Robin Rogers, Director of Economy and Place
Robin.rogers@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Report by Director of Economy and Place (CA10).
The CABINET is RECOMMENDED to
a) Note the council’s current and planned policy and programme activity in support of the rural economy;
b) Note the requests from Council to Cabinet made through the motion on Farming passed by Council on 10 December 2024 and how the council’s approach will address these issues.
Decision:
Recommendations approved.
Minutes:
Cabinet had before it a report which addressed the motion agreed by Council on 10 December 2024 that related to the impact on farm businesses and farming families of measures announced in the autumn statement of 30 October, 2024. The report summarised the council’s existing and emerging policy and programme support to rural businesses and set out how the council’s approach would address the issues raised in the motion that are within the influence of the county council.
Councillor Liz Leffman, Leader of the Council, presented the report.
During discussion, members highlighted the economic and business support provided to the farming community in the Oxfordshire. They mentioned the distribution of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Oxford Food Strategy, and the potential participation in the Oxfam to Fork scheme. The Leader had also written to the Chancellor expressing concerns about the inheritance tax proposal.
Councillor Leffman moved, and Councillor Sudbury seconded the recommendations and they were approved.
RESOLVED to:-
b) Note the requests from Council to Cabinet made through the motion on Farming passed by Council on 10 December 2024 and how the council’s approach will address these issues.