Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

I was not going to draw attention to that. It was so surprising that a matter of such importance to the future of local government had not attracted even one person with any interest in the subject from the Labour Benches, that I had almost forgotten how to say so in a polite manner. That is outrageous—unequalled, I would have thought. I cannot remember a local government debate of this nature in which the Government party has not had a single Back Bencher here. Perhaps they are all as confused as the one whom we heard from earlier—