Well over 25 per cent of properties move up one band and just under 5 per cent of properties move up two bands.We face the prospect that people, particularly those on fixed incomes, who have lived in a house since before the council tax was invented but whose house happens to be in an area where house prices have risen, will find that not only has their council tax increased by the amount of the poundage increase—which I remind members is 55 per cent since 1997—but that they have moved into a higher council tax band as a result of property price increases from which they have gained no benefit whatever and indeed will gain no such benefit until they die.Unless the Government is telling us that it believes that people have to sell their house and move to a cheaper one in order to pay the tax, it really has to come up with a fairer system of levying...