I'm about to say that. Thank you, Sam. My preference is that all houses are revalued and that council tax is a fixed percentage of the value of the property. I will again call for either more bands and a change to the multiplier, or a spot-price valuation, with each property paying the same percentage of its value.

Moving on to standard spending assessment, which is where we get our aggregate external finance from, it's the Government mechanism for allocating grant based on a calculation of what each local authority needs to spend to deliver a standard level of service at a common rate of council tax. For the purpose of calculating individual SSA allocations, local government is broken down into 55 notional service areas. When I was involved in highway maintenance, it went from 52 per cent population and 48 per cent road length to 50 per cent of each. A minor change, you may say. It moved several hundred thousand pounds from Swansea, Cardiff and Newport into Powys, Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd. Again, you might think that's a good idea.

The standard spending assessment per head for each council varies between £2,520 at Blaenau Gwent to £2,049 at Monmouth. A separate method of distribution exists for each service element, in order to distribute the total across authorities. The distribution method falls into two categories: formula based and distribution based. I'm sure that Welsh Government Ministers are fed up of me asking for this, but why can't they publish the workings? Show how each local authority's standard spending assessment is calculated. You must have it, or you wouldn't be working on it. The aggregate external finance is calculated from the SSA and councils' nominal council tax receipts. Again, the figures are published, but the calculations are not.

Finally, what you would expect is that the councils with the most properties in bands A and B would get the most aggregate external funding, and those with the most in band D and above the least, which is actually what happens. So, I will again finish up on my request, which I will probably do at the next meeting as well, when we discuss this: can the Government just publish their workings?