§ Mr. Moneyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will introduce legislation to make all land on which a grant of planning permission for housing development has been made and no building start has been made within 12 months liable to be rated.
§ Mr. Graham PageNo. Subject to agricultural exemptions, such land is already rateable if it is beneficially occupied. If my hon. Friend has in mind a form of rate on the value of sites for94W development, I would refer him to the discussion of site value rating in paragraphs 2.71 to 2.78 of the Green Paper on the Future Shape of Local Government Finance.