§ Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many qualified valuers have been transferred from their previous duties with the Inland Revenue to work connected with the Land Commission; how many non-qualified valuers lacking professional qualifications, are now engaged by the Revenue on rating revaluation work; how many non-qualified staff have been promoted to posts involving the making of professional valuation judgments since 1st January, 1967; and what estimate he has of the shortfall of professionally qualified valuation officers for both the Revenue proper and the Land Commission.
§ Mr. MacDermotThe valuation work for the Land Commission is integrated with the other duties of the Inland Revenue Valuation Office and it is not possible at present to say what proportion of these duties it forms. The information asked for in the second part of the Question is not available. No non-qualified staff have been promoted to posts of valuer since 1st January, 1967. The Valuation Office is short of its needs, but the extent of the shortfall cannot be precisely estimated until the work arising from the Land Commission builds up.