Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 July 1983.
Mr Chris Smith
, Islington South and Finsbury
12:00,
6 July 1983
In the light of the Secretary of State's reply, will he immediately reinstitute the review of rateable values that was scrapped by his predecessor in 1979? Is he aware that that action has led to extreme unfairness of treatment among inhabitants of identical properties in my Constituency, to the extent that sometimes the rateable value of one house is three times that of the one next door?
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