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Council Tax: Valuation

Volume 458: debated on Wednesday 28 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what obligations householders have to co-operate with requests from the Valuation Office Agency to fill in questionnaires to assist with council tax valuations; (129255)

(2) if she will place in the Library a copy of the questionnaire and covering letter which the Valuation Office Agency has sent to householders in the last 12 months in relation to requesting information to assist with council tax valuations;

(3) whether the Valuation Office Agency obtains property data from any estate agent industry business or organisation other than Rightmove;

(4) how the Valuation Office Agency identifies whether a domestic dwelling has a conservatory;

(5) which estate agent companies provide information to the Valuation Office Agency via the Rightmove interface;

(6) which external organisations have provided (a) information on individual domestic properties and (b) geo-spatial data to the Valuation Office Agency since 2000.

I am today placing in the Library an information note about the Valuation Office Agency's valuation practices. The Government take the view that this, together with the detailed information on valuation which the VGA has already made available on its website and the additional information which has previously been placed in the Library or otherwise provided in response to a number of questions, constitutes a clear and satisfactory statement of how properties are valued for council tax purposes in England.