Amendment 8

Part of Non-Domestic Rating Bill - Report – in the House of Lords am 5:15 pm ar 19 Medi 2023.

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Photo of Lord Etherton Lord Etherton Crossbench 5:15, 19 Medi 2023

My Lords, I also support Amendment 8 in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Lytton. Ideally, it is worth avoiding appeals. Appeals can be avoided only if there is confidence that you have the material available. That presupposes a sharing of information that is open and transparent. One of the criticisms that is often made is of the time taken in appeals, the obscurity of the role adopted by the valuation office and its failure to disclose information. It seems to me that it is in everybody’s interests, economically and in terms of management time and stress, to avoid appeals by an early disclosure of information where requested.