To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Valuation Office Agency has purchased (a) software and (b) consultancy services from the company CDC Ltd. in the last five years. (78317)

The Valuation Office Agency has not purchased (a) software or (b) consultancy services from the company CDC Ltd. in the last five years.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the documents produced by the Valuation Office Agency Director of Modernisation for the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation conferences in (a) Spain in February 2005 and (b) Blackpool in May 2006. (78319)

No documents were produced by the Valuation Office Agency's Director of Modernisation for the IRRV conference Spain in February 2005. However, some slides were used at this presentation and a copy of these has been placed in the Library. He did not attend the IRRV conference in Blackpool in May 2006.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many full-time equivalent communications, public relations and marketing staff were employed by the Valuation Office Agency at each grade in each year since 2001. (78341)

The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by the Valuation Office Agency, by grade, since 2001 in the categories described are shown in the following tables:

Staff responsible for internal communications channels and content (including maintenance of the Agency's intranet site) and for external publications and communications (including maintenance of the Agency's website)

Within the District Valuer Services business stream of the Agency, a number of staff are employed, on a full or part-time basis, as client account or client development managers. Their numbers are shown in the following table. “Marketing” is part of their much wider roles, and no separate attribution of time to this particular aspect is available.