Valuation Office Agency
Released: 09 May 2024
Next Release: August 2024
Frequency of release: Quarterly
Coverage: England and Wales
This release includes statistics relating to checks and challenges under the Check Challenge Appeal (CCA) system used for the 2023 rating list in both England and Wales and the 2017 rating list in England. It also includes non-CCA challenges for the 2017 rating list in Wales,
In August 2023 we reviewed and redesigned the table structures for this publication, with the aim of making them more usable, as well as more consistent with presentation of official statistics across other departments. As such they will differ in structure to versions prior to August 2023.
We propose to make some changes to improve the coherence of our suite of non-domestic statistics. This will impact both Challenges and Changes and Stock of Properties publications. We plan to remove the counts of assessment reviews tables (tables 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 for 2023 England and Wales; tables 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 for 2017 England and tables 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 for 2017 Wales) from the NDR Challenges and Changes publication. In their place we plan to add tables in the NDR Stock of Properties publication showing counts of the main types of changes to the list i.e. insertions, deletions, reconstitutions etc, most of which are a result of assessment reviews. The purpose of this change is to help explain in a more complete way, year on year changes to stock and provide a more meaningful set of statistics. The first release where we will implement these changes will be the June 2024 release of Stock of Properties and the August 2024 release of Challenges and Changes.
If you are a user of these tables and have any queries or concerns around this change please email statistics@voa.gov.uk.
These statistics will be expanded in future releases depending on user needs, and data availability and quality.
For further details on the information included in this release, including a glossary of terms and a variable list for the CSV format files, please refer to the background information document or the CSV metadata file within the CSV Files zip file.