Question follow-through · 50522

Revenue and Customs and Valuation Office Agency

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what form of legislation her Department plans to bring forward to merge the Valuation Office Agency with HM Revenue and Customs.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 7 May 2025
Target answer date: 12 May 2025
Answer: 16 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what form of legislation her Department plans to bring forward to merge the Valuation Office Agency with HM Revenue and Customs.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
No legislation is required to bring forward the merger and the change will come into effect by the end of the financial year.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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