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Vikki Slade

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Welfare Spending
Tuesday 4th November 2025

(1 day, 7 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Griffith Portrait Andrew Griffith
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I am enormously concerned. I was concerned when I woke up this morning, and I am even more concerned after hearing the intervention from our Chancellor: no certainty, confidence plummeting, and the promise of more taxes to follow.

Vikki Slade Portrait Vikki Slade (Mid Dorset and North Poole) (LD)
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I hope that the shadow Minister will explain something to me. I totally agree that business rates need reform, but I am deeply concerned about the hole in local government finance that it will cause. My local council, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, has calculated that it retains £66 million from business rates. Can he please tell me where that will come from?

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