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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

This is an interesting debate on an important amendment. The basic architecture of the Bill would put off revaluation. There is little difference between the Opposition and the Government on that. We think that postponement is a good thing because there is widespread concern about the revaluation originally set down in the Local Government Act 2003—the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) was wrong about that. The Government have had a genuine change of heart on proceeding with revaluation and referred the matter to the Lyons review.