---

Council Tax Capping (Surrey)

Does my hon. Friend share my frustration not only that are there significant manpower issues in relation to the capping itself, but that the re-billing exercise will add an additional cost that is wholly unnecessary and will put extra burdens on the district councils required to carry it out and lead to a further cut in manpower, at a time when a county that must deal with the policing of Heathrow, the M25 and Gatwick airport will also, I fear, face increased overspill crime from London, because of a rise in property crime rates resulting from the recession? Does he agree that the capping is the wrong thing to do, at the wrong time?