Council Tax: Valuation

Mrs. Lait
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) of 20 June 2007, Official Report, column 1856W, on council tax: valuation, what use is being made by the Valuation Office Agency of data from Rightmove now that the council tax revaluation in England has been postponed.

John Healey
Information accessible under the terms of the arrangement with Rightmove is being used to ensure that the data held by the Valuation Office Agency are accurate.

Mrs. Lait
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Surrey Heath of 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 152W, on council tax: valuation, what each (a) product and (b) dataset is that the Valuation Office Agency has a licence to use from Ordnance Survey.

John Healey
The Valuation Office Agency has a license to use the following OS products and datasets:

1: 10 000 Scale Raster

1: 25 000 Scale Colour Raster

1: 50 000 Scale Colour Raster

1: 250 000 Scale Colour Raster

1: 50 000 Scale Gazetteer

Land-Line.Plus®

OS MasterMap® Topography Layer

OS MasterMap® Address Layer

OS MasterMap® Address Layer 2

OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network Layer

ADDRESS POINT®

Boundary Line™

Code Point®

Code Point® with Polygons

Land-Form PROFILE®

Meridian™ 2

MiniScale®

Strategi®

OSCAR Asset Manager®

OSCAR Traffic Manager®.