People "feel a disproportionate burden of stamp duty" in Elmbridge, said Dominic Raab MP.

The MP for Esher and Walton was speaking during a co-sponsored debate in Westminster that discussed the need for stamp duty reform.

Stamp duty land tax is a percentage that has to be paid if a property is bought in the UK over a certain price, and depends on the purchase price of the property and if it is residential.

Dominic Raab MP said: "To give a sense of the big picture, for 2012-13, residents in my constituency paid £56m to the Exchequer in stamp duty on residential property.

"That is more than the total paid in the whole of the north-east of England... the amount of stamp duty paid in my constituency is equivalent to a third of the figure for the entirety of Scotland."

He then went on to speak as a voice for people in low and middle income households, who are "assest rich in statistical terms, but they are income poor".

Adding: "Frankly, in constituencies such as mine, stamp duty feels like an assault by the taxman on hard-working, middle-income savers, who are precisely the people we should be incentivising, not walloping."