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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the great complexity of the system makes people wary about revaluation, especially after what happened in Wales? When we shifted from standard spending assessment to formula spending share as a mechanism to provide grant to local authorities, council tax rose by so much in the south-east that people believed that a revaluation in England would be, in a sense, bent. That is why they were so resistant to it in many parts of the south-east of England.