To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will link the threshold for inheritance tax in Northern Ireland to the level of house prices there. (131131)

The inheritance tax nil-rate band increases each year by reference to the retail prices index unless Parliament decides otherwise.

However, the Chancellor announced in Budget 2007 increases in the nil-rate band in excess of the expected retail prices index for each year through to 2010-11 when it will reach £350,000.