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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am trying to set out exactly such an example, but perhaps I strayed a little far in pointing out a particular area. It is conceivable that an area could have a large number of new properties, the valuation of which would be set by their sale price, but that would distort the gradation and, therefore, the proportional spread across the council tax bands of the rest of the authorities in that billing authority’s area or the area covered by a group of billing authorities.