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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

My hon. Friend is right. The stakeholders are council tax payers, who need to know why they are paying the amount that they are and what it is going towards. They should be able to find that out from the local authority’s annual report. However, what is often invisible in the council tax process is the amount of money that comes in from central Government, not only to the local authority but directly to services. That has been happening a lot more in recent years. For example, money is going directly to schools—