Clause 5 - Temporary borrowing
Local Government Bill
10:00 am
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I do not know what the Minister is waffling on about. I said that some local authorities have a lamentable council tax collection record. Frankly, I regard 80 per cent. as lamentable in the extreme, so there is not much to sing about in getting from 66 to 80 per cent. Other local authorities, including my own, have extremely good records, as
one would expect of a Conservative-controlled authority.