Angela Rayner's tax affairs statement in full

After speaking to Sky News governmental exertion Beth Rigby astir her taxation and lodging situation, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner admitted she did not wage the close stamp work erstwhile buying a spot successful Hove. Read her afloat connection below.

"Following the important scrutiny surrounding my surviving arrangements, I wanted to acceptable retired the facts arsenic openly and transparently arsenic I can.

"Until now, an undertaking successful a tribunal bid prevented maine from disclosing accusation astir definite aspects of my idiosyncratic life. In the interests of nationalist transparency, I applied to the tribunal and I was past nighttime released from this undertaking.

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"Family beingness tin beryllium complicated, and it is nary concealed that, similar galore families crossed the country, my home arrangements bespeak these complexities. Throughout my career, I person ever tried to beryllium the champion mum to my children, portion managing the demanding realities of nationalist service.

"There has been a batch of speculation successful caller days astir my home arrangements and successful peculiar the location I stock with my ex-husband and my family.

"While I bash not find it casual to publically sermon idiosyncratic and sometimes distressing household matters, I person ever taken my work arsenic an MP and lawman premier curate earnestly and tried to beryllium arsenic unfastened arsenic imaginable portion protecting my family. To code the allegations made against maine I person present taken the hard determination to explicate wherefore my arrangements are arsenic they are.

"In 2023 my ex-husband and I divorced. As parents who person been done divorcement volition understand, the apical precedence for some of america during that process was the wellbeing of our children and helping them navigate this change.

"To supply maximum stableness during this transition, we agreed to a nesting statement wherever the children stay successful the household location full-time portion we alternate surviving there. We besides wanted to guarantee that our child, who has peculiar acquisition needs, was provided for arsenic portion of the divorcement settlement.

"A court-instructed spot was established successful 2020 pursuing a profoundly idiosyncratic and distressing incidental involving my lad arsenic a premature baby. He was near with life-long disabilities, and the spot was established to negociate the grant connected his behalf - a modular signifier successful circumstances similar ours.

"To guarantee helium continued to person stableness successful the household home, which had been adapted for his needs, we agreed that our involvement successful the household location would beryllium transferred to this court-instructed spot of which helium is the sole beneficiary.

"Some of the involvement successful our household location was transferred to the spot successful 2023. In January 2025, I sold the remaining involvement successful the spot to my son's trust. This volition springiness him the information of knowing the location is his, allowing him to proceed to unrecorded successful the location helium feels harmless successful and grew up in. We transferred the spot due to the fact that it was successful the champion interests of our child. I acted arsenic immoderate genitor would.

"The merchantability of the spot successful Ashton-under-Lyne to the spot has not altered my household life. It remains my household home, arsenic it has been for implicit a decade. It contains the bulk of my possessions and it is wherever I americium registered for astir authoritative and fiscal purposes ranging from recognition cards to the dentist to the electoral roll. But astir importantly, it is wherever my children unrecorded and person gone to schoolhouse and present college, and wherever I regularly unrecorded portion caring for them.

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"After I sold my involvement to the trust, I bought a spot successful Hove successful May 2025. Like galore people, I utilized the lump sum from selling my involvement successful my Ashton home, which was the lone spot I owned and wherever my savings were, for the deposit connected my caller one. I obtained a owe to concern the rest.

"When purchasing the spot my understanding, connected proposal from lawyers, was that my circumstances meant I was liable for the modular complaint of stamp duty.

"However, fixed the caller allegations successful the property I person subsequently sought further proposal from a starring taxation counsel to reappraisal that presumption and to guarantee I americium afloat compliant with each taxation provisions. I person present been advised that though I did not ain immoderate different spot astatine the clip of the purchase, the exertion of analyzable deeming provisions which subordinate to my son's spot gives emergence to further stamp work liabilities.

"I admit that owed to my reliance connected proposal from lawyers which did not decently instrumentality relationship of these provisions, I did not wage the due stamp work astatine the clip of the purchase. I americium moving with adept lawyers and with HMRC to resoluteness the substance and wage what is due.

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"The arrangements I person acceptable retired bespeak the world that household beingness is seldom straightforward, peculiarly erstwhile dealing with disability, divorce, and the complexities of ensuring your children's semipermanent security. Every determination I person made has been guided by what I judge to beryllium successful my children's champion interests.

"I profoundly regret the mistake that has been made. I americium committed to resolving this substance afloat and providing the transparency that nationalist work demands. It is for that crushed I person contiguous referred myself to the Independent Adviser connected Ministerial Standards, and volition supply him with my fullest practice and entree to each the accusation helium requires."