Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

I think that that would depend on the trust that we place in the integrity of the valuation process, a point to which I shall return. First, I want to consider an issue that has been raised a number of times and which we need to discuss in some depth, so that we can establish which is preferable: a central bureaucracy that runs matters nationally; a much more localised approach; or, as we have speculated on throughout this debate, a staggered approach involving a small, compact, expert unit working sequentially, thus potentially saving money.