Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, has confirmed that farmers will receive almost £3bn of funding to help them in the transition from the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to the new UK funding system, as outlined in the Agriculture Bill. After months of focus elsewhere, the UK Agriculture Bill was resurrected in the Queen’s
Chancellor’s budget unlikely to deliver tax concessions to rural sector given looming EU exit costs says Saffery Champness
What can be predicted for the Chancellor’s Budget on 29 October is that it will be light on giveaways and heavy on any measures that can scrape more into the Treasury war chest, particularly with the cost of Brexit, possibly with an additional year of payments to the EU, looming. Leaving Europe is already estimated