HC Deb 25 April 1950 vol 474 c83W
74. Mr. Watkinson

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why it is necessary for officials of the Inland Revenue Valuation Office to have power to enter private houses when local authority officials who pi eviously carried out valuation work required no such special powers.

Mr. Jay

The powers t entry given to officials of the Inland Revenue Valuation Office are substantially the same as those previously held by the officials of local authorities.