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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

That worries me as well. Underlying much of the debate is the assumption that a beneficent Government, aware of the process described by my hon. Friend, would automatically compensate for it from central funds. I am not sure that we can make that assumption. Indeed, a number of my right hon. and hon. Friends have said that we must not make such assumptions about Governments, especially this Government. We have seen ample evidence of the Government’s ability to move central funding so as adversely to affect the constituents of Conservative Members, so we have to be very careful about that.