To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what contractual agreements Ordnance Survey (OS) has made with the Valuation Office Agency for release of data held by OS to the Agency. (143453)

Ordnance Survey licenses the Valuation Office Agency to access a range of data and products for use within their business operations. The Valuation Office Agency is a member of the Pan-government Agreement, a collective purchasing agreement between Ordnance Survey and central Government.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the Valuation Office Agency uses fee code segmentation data for valuation purposes. (143493)

No.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the Valuation Office Agency’s contract with Rightmove gives the agency access to data or analysis from the Rightmove Automated Valuation Model. (143629)

No.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what date the Valuation Office Agency’s contract with Rightmove allowed the agency to start collecting information about domestic dwellings. (143635)

The Valuation Office Agency has collected information about domestic dwellings in order to meet its statutory responsibilities to compile and maintain council tax valuation lists since 1991.

The facility to access data from Rightmove’s archive of estate agent particulars (which had previously been available to the public on Rightmove.co.uk’s main website) began on the date of the agreement—1 June 2005.