Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Rhagfyr 1973.
The hon. Gentleman's Question was whether the Government would recast the rating system. He thinks that Part II of the Local Government Bill is useless. Does he remember that it deals with statutory deductions, improvements, disabled persons, public utilities and rate rebates all recasting the rating system? The Government have decided that rates should be the main source of income for local authorities. That does not rule out any supplementary finance which may be useful in future.