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Valuation Office: Personal Records

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what databases containing personal data the Valuation Office Agency (a) maintains and (b) has access to. [311665]

Ian Pearson: The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) maintains a number of databases to support its work, some of which is personal data. In addition, the VOA has access to databases owned by third parties, which are either publicly available or which the VOA has a statutory duty to access in order to carry out its work. These databases may contain personal data.

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