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Valuation Office: Databases

Volume 487: debated on Monday 2 February 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) domestic and (b) composite properties in England have an entry on the Valuation Office Agency's automated valuation model database; and how many have one or more digital photographs associated with an entry on the Agency's databases. (252294)

The Valuation Office Agency's Automated Valuation Model is not in itself a database. The Agency's central database stores the data that feed into its automated valuation modelling.

The number of domestic properties in England with a live council tax band was 22,354,681 as at 30 November 2008. Of these, 832,982 had one or more digital photographs associated with them. The number of composite properties in England with a live council tax band was 284,843 as at 30 November 2008. Of these, 13,190 had one or more digital photographs associated with them.