Supplemental

Part of Local Government Finance Bill (Allocation of Time) – in the House of Commons at 4:11 pm on 4 March 1992.

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The timetable motion continues the momentum that we have established. We set ourselves the demanding but achieveable target of introducing the council tax on 1 April 1993. The Opposition said that that could not be done, and pressed us to return to a rating system based on the discredited 1973 rateable values; but the progress that has been made through this Bill and in other ways now demonstrated just how wrong the Opposition were.