Council Tax Valuation Bands Bill [HL]

My Lords, if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 2, 3 and 4 by reason of pre-em...

My Lords, my noble friend has made it clear that he does not like the Bill and would not wish it ...

My noble friend raises a very important point. He says there will not be a lot of complications. ...

Of course it does: it is the actual price paid. If somebody buys a house, they will know the band...

Sorry, I was only seeking clarification and my noble friend has clarified it. Thank you.

I want to say a word on the retrospection point. Recently, the Chancellor of the Exchequer reduce...

I was not planning to intervene in this debate and I very much support the position taken by the ...

Of course there are two schedules: it is the whole purpose that properties migrate, when they cha...

My Lords, this subject of property valuation has proved rather difficult over the years. I spent ...

My Lords, I am sure that my noble friend on the Front Bench does not want to get involved in this...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Marlesford has done a great service in bringing this matter to the...

My Lords, I support one of the main elements of the Bill of the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford—namel...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord True for his work on, and engagement with, this Bill. He h...

My Lords, I am grateful to those who have spoken and to my noble friend on the Front Bench for th...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I see the anomaly that he refers to. However, is ...

The noble Lord makes a perfectly reasonable point. However, although you can appeal to the valuat...

I do not think that any of us envisage a system in which each time people think the value of thei...

No, but the noble Lord is replacing a system which is based on a consistent set of valuations wit...

My Lords, the fact is that the council tax as originally devised is a progressive tax. There is n...

My Lords, there is a principle of progression: the landowner will have more dustbins than the per...

Moved by

Lord Marlesford

10: Clause 2, page 2, line 4, leave out “and Wales and Scotl...

This amendment is merely technical. It was a mistake in the drafting of the Bill to apply it to S...

My Lords, if Amendment 10 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 11 by reason of pre-emption.