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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

Certainly, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend’s amendment would require a much smaller cohort of staff who, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) said, could be sent around the country at the behest of the Government to carry out a rolling valuation. The amendment has two great virtues. It is not perfect, but it is much better than nothing, and it demonstrates the imagination that Conservatives bring to the subject, given our constituents’ frustration with the fact that the Government insist on maintaining an unfair system that penalises many of them.