Local Government Finance Bill

Given the context of the discussions that have taken place, I think it would help the Committee if we had at least some idea of what the Minister thinks ““disproportionate”” means. Members on both sides of the Committee have given a number of examples of what they might regard as disproportionate. Would the building of a new town that doubled the population of an area count as disproportionate? Would the opening of a nuclear power station count? Given that we are trying to scrutinise the Bill, it would be helpful to have some idea of what the Minister regards as disproportionate and about the time context. One benefit, as I see it, of this Bill is that it puts a 10-year cycle in place, so presumably things happening over the course of a single year would be taken in context and would not fall foul of the ““disproportionate”” definition—or perhaps they would. It is in the Minister's hands.