Housing: Valuation

Mrs. Lait
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 18 June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: valuation, if he will place in the Library (a) a hard copy and (b) electronic copies of the maps and boundaries of each locality.

Mr. Timms
The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Mrs. Lait
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the Valuation Office Agency will adopt a principle of data minimisation in the information it collects and holds on domestic dwellings.

Mr. Timms
The Valuation Office Agency only collects information on domestic dwellings that is necessary for it to undertake its work in relation to property valuation.