HC Deb 27 October 1971 vol 823 c339W
Mr. Iremonger

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many, and which, local authorities in England and Wales do not use the independent district valuers employed by the Board of Inland Revenue when assessing the compensation to be paid to home-owners when compulsory purchasing their property, and instead decide the compensation on the basis of valuations made by their valuation offices in their own paid employment.

Mr. Graham Page

From such information as I have been able to obtain it seems likely that at present some 40–50 local authorities do not employ the District Valuer for negotiating compensation claims and a further 90–100 do not make use of his services for some negotiations. But because practices vary from one authority to another and from time to time I would see no useful purpose in giving names.