Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

As the statement of 20 September and as my right hon. Friend has made clear, our policy is to ensure that, following Sir Michael Lyons’s review, at the right time—we have said that we do not believe that that will be in the lifetime of this Parliament—we will introduce in the House proposals for revaluation, and that is why on several occasions at the Dispatch Box my right hon. Friend and I have been able to reassure those who take the right hon. Gentleman’s point of view that this is a postponement, not a cancellation of revaluation.