HC Deb 18 July 1997 vol 298 c339W
Mr. Connarty

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what performance targets have been set for the Valuation and lands Agency for 1997–98. [10166]

Mr. Murphy

For 1997–98 the following key performance targets have been set for the Agency:

  1. 1. To complete 54,000 rating cases—equivalent to 33,600 work units.
  2. 2. To complete 30,000 client service cases—equivalent to 15,000 work units.
  3. 3. To have completed by 31 March 1998 an overview database of the public sector property estate in Northern Ireland.
  4. 4. To achieve a productivity for caseworking valuers of 342 work units.
  5. 5. TO achieve at least a 2.5 per cent. efficiency saving on the 1996–97 allocation in real terms.
  6. 6. To achieve a unit cost of casework no greater than the 1996–97 unit cost in real terms.
  7. 7. To achieve a standard in domestic rating valuations such that 88 per cent. of those determined on appeal are within plus or minus 10 per cent. of the initial assessment.
  8. 8. To achieve a standard in non-domestic rating valuations such that 80 per cent. of those determined on appeal are within plus or minus 10 per cent. of the initial assessment.
  9. 9. To complete 85 per cent. of domestic rating appeals within 6 months of receipt.
  10. 10. To complete 80 per cent. of non-domestic rating appeals within 6 months of receipt.
  11. 11. To complete 93 per cent. of a representative sample of client services casework within agreed time limits.

Full details are set out in the Agency's Corporate and Business Plans, copies of which have been placed in the Library of the House.