Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

The Secretary of State would decide. My hon. Friend needs to recognise that if the ability-to-pay assessment in the funding formula were changed—as I mentioned earlier, before I ran the risk of being ruled out of order—the readjustment in a billing authority or in a group of billing authorities would make no difference to the council tax for those properties, unless the local authority’s sum council tax bill for the whole billing authority increased.