Question follow-through · 107998
Valuation Office Agency: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Valuation Office Agency staff will have their contractual terms amended following its merger with HMRC.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Valuation Office Agency staff will have their contractual terms amended following its merger with HMRC.
27 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Valuation Office Agency will close from 1 April 2026 with all colleagues transferring into HMRC. Colleagues will transfer under the Cabinet Office Statement of Practice (COSoP) with which HMRC and the VOA have complied in full. All contractual terms c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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