Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that suggestion, because he brings me to the timing of such activities, although I shall not myself get to that point quite yet. The ““timeline”” is, I think the modern phrase, and it is relevant. Already we can see emerging a kaleidoscope of criteria on which the matter could be judged. There is the question, ““How local do we get?”” We have not explored that thoroughly yet, although it was touched on earlier. Are we talking about district authorities, counties or regional authorities? The amendment leaves all that open. We could have individual billing authorities, an undefined"““group of adjoining billing authorities””," or, indeed, all billing authorities. Those are all options under the amendment. Who is to decide? I shall come to that rather later in my meanderings, but at this stage we shall leave it as an unanswered question.