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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

My hon. Friend is very patient. I would hate to shorten his speech, but one of the difficulties with his argument is that he does not recognise a lifeline when one is thrown to him and he is starting to blow bubbles from underwater. He ought to recognise my earlier point that the ability to pay is the second way in which the valuation and the spread of valuation is taken into account for the national distribution, under the Government’s present formula. That would have to change, and it could easily be changed and improved, as I have already suggested three times this afternoon.