Valuation Office Agency

Mrs. Spelman
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much the Valuation Office Agency has paid to (a) Cole Layer Trumble and (b) Tyler Technologies to date; and what the expected expenditure to each is for the remainder of 2006-07.

Mr. Woolas
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) does not have a contract with Cole Layer Trumble (CLT). The contract is between Capgemini (IT providers to HMRC and the VOA) and CLT who are a division of Tyler Technologies. The total spend with CLT from July 2004 to October 2006 is £3,544,294. Any anticipated expenditure for the remainder of 2006-07 is unlikely to exceed £200,000.

Mrs. Spelman
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library the training material produced bythe Valuation Office Agency's (VOA) Training Development (Human Resources) section on Dwellinghouse Coding available on the VOA’s intranet.

Mr. Woolas
The Valuation Office Agency’s Training and Development (Human Resources) Manual, referred to in the Agency’s Council Tax Manual no longer exists. The Agency’s Council Tax Manual will be updated to reflect this.