Dame Harriett Baldwin highlights the need for economic growth in rural areas and raises concerned that measures in the Chancellor’s Budget are having the opposite effect. 

Dame Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire) (Con)

It is clear that we all want to see economic growth in rural areas and across the UK, but I am concerned that some of the measures in the Chancellor’s Budget are having the opposite effect. Which statistic worries her most: the fact that we are at a 20-year high for business closures, or the 100% increase in millionaires leaving the UK?

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