To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what role the Valuation Office Agency is playing in the roll-out of the Valuebill project. (143478)

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is promoting the benefits of the Valuebill data exchange process within the recent initiative to develop closer working relationships with its local authority partners to make it more efficient. As well as implementing the latest Valuebill exchange standard, the VOA provides a validation service for local authority IT suppliers on similar developments.