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Valuation Office

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 8 January 2008

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's CT and Best Practice Process Maps. (176410)

The Council Tax Process Maps and Best Practice guidance is contained in the Valuation Office Agency's "How2" toolkit. This is held in linked electronic formats within the Valuation Office Agency's main IT systems and can be viewed with full functionality only through the appropriate software package. To provide a copy in the Library could be done only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's technical presentation entitled “The Dating Game”. (176415)

‘The Dating Game’ is not a technical presentation. It is an exercise used for internal staff training purposes. A copy has been placed in the Library of the House.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what use the Valuation Office Agency makes of intelligent addressing for valuation purposes. (176423)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the Valuation Office Agency spent on purchasing floodplain polygons from the Environment Agency; and what use is made of the data for valuation purposes. (176424)

The Valuation Office Agency was provided with floodplain polygon data at no charge. The data are not currently used for valuation purposes.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Valuation Office Agency has purchased a licence to use the pictometry product which Ordnance Survey sells on behalf of Blom Aerofilms Ltd. (176425)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the average values are of coefficients for the Valuation Office Agency's value significant codes of (a) ZL, (b) ZI and (c) ZH for those sections of the country for which they are available; (176442)

(2) what the estimated weighted national averages of coefficients are for the Valuation Office Agency’s value significant codes of (a) ZL, (b) ZI and (c) ZH;

(3) what the coefficients are for the Valuation Office Agency’s value significant codes of (a) ZL, (b) ZI and (c) ZH, broken down by (i) time period, (ii) area and (iii) property type; and whether the dependent variables are calculated on a linear basis.