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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

If I understand the spirit of the amendment correctly, it would essentially allow a localised revaluation, as opposed to a one-size-fits-all national revaluation process. New clause 1 was not selected for debate—in no way do I seek to challenge the decisions on the groupings—but, in spirit, it would have allowed both a top-down power, whereby the Secretary of State could order a revaluation, and a bottom-up request, whereby a group of authorities could come together to seek the Secretary of State’s authorisation of such a revaluation. My hon. Friend may be about to cover that anyway, but will he make it clear whether he believes that amendment No. 3, which is much briefer, would work in both ways and that the bottom-up, as well as the top-down power, should exist?