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Robert Halfon

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Monday 30th April 2012

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Stunell Portrait Andrew Stunell
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The right hon. Gentleman is of course a doughty fighter on these matters, and I assure him that the Bill will be back in the House within a week or two.

Robert Halfon Portrait Robert Halfon (Harlow) (Con)
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Is not the best way to help those on low incomes to freeze council tax, and is the Minister aware that Harlow’s Conservative district council has frozen council tax not just for one or two years, but for three years?

Lord Stunell Portrait Andrew Stunell
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Clearly, a good way of reducing the cost to the state of the council tax benefit system, and the cost to the householder, is to freeze council tax, and I commend the hon. Gentleman’s local council on the work that it has done.