Valuation Office

Mr. Pickles
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham of 4 September 2006, Official Report, column 1681W, on Valuation Office Agency, which property attribute variables may be used in billing authorities.

John Healey
All variables which are based on property attributes, used in modelling in the Valuation Office Agency's Automated Valuation Model, may be used in billing authority areas.