Llywydd, it would help if the Member's question were based on just a few simple facts, wouldn't it? It is nonsense to say that council tax bills in Wales are higher than they are in England. The average band D council tax in Wales is £167 a year less than the English average. The average rise in council tax in Wales for the current financial year is 3.8 per cent; it's 4.4 per cent in England. He gets his basic facts wrong, and it doesn't help the case that he wants to make. No doubt he will be welcoming the fact that Neath Port Talbot council has agreed a council tax rise of 3.1 per cent for its local residents this year, significantly below the level agreed, for example, by Conservative Monmouthshire. So, his residents are lucky, aren't they, to be living with a Labour council?

Now, where I do agree with the Member is that the system we currently have does not fairly distribute the need to fund local services, and we will bring forward proposals during this Senedd term to reform council tax to make it fairer for Welsh citizens. That will not be an easy thing to do, because in any system that you look to make fairer, there will be some people who will have to pay more in order that those people less able to pay can pay less, and I look forward to his support when those proposals are brought forward.