IRRV Alert - week ending 31st January 2014

Editorial

Publicity

Links to articles week ending 31st January 2014

Issue 31 of our Valuation in Practice newsletter is now available on our website. (http://www.valuationtribunal.gov.uk/vip_newsletter.aspx)

Press release: Royal approval for new law to deliver £1.2 billion taxpayer savings

30 January, 2014 at 03:39pm

A Local Audit and Accountability Act has passed into law following Royal Assent.

Policy paper: Community Budgets

31 January, 2014 at 11:03am
Government response to the issues raised by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee in its report on community budgets.

Form: National non-domestic rates return

27 January, 2014 at 10:26am

[Updated: Form, guidance and letter for 2014 to 2015 added]
Forms and guidance notes for the national non-domestic rates return (NNDR).

Speech: Transforming welfare

27 January, 2014 at 12:21pm

How welfare has changed in the last 4 years.

Transparency data: DWP senior officials travel report July 2013 to September 2013

27 January, 2014 at 03:23pm

International travel undertaken by DWP senior officials between July and September 2013.

Policy: Making the Administrative Justice and Tribunals system more effective

27 January, 2014 at 03:47pm

Actions being taken to make Administrative Justice and Tribunals more streamlined and efficient.

 

Guidance: BRIL 1: Non-Domestic Rating Order 2014, shale gas, business rates appeal, payment of business rates bills

27 January, 2014 at 04:31pm

Business rates information letters are issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government at regular intervals throughout the year.

Speech: A welfare state fit for the 21st century

28 January, 2014 at 08:40am

Setting out a vision for Britain’s welfare state.

 

Transparency data: DWP business plan transparency measures

28 January, 2014 at 11:28am

[Updated: Updated transparency measures: rates of people moving from key out of work benefits and the proportion of State Pension claims completed online. Relevant data files replaced with updated versions.]
Data from the Department for Work and Pensions' business plan indicators.

 

Transparency data: Workforce management information for HMRC and the VOA: 2013

28 January, 2014 at 01:39pm

[Updated: Added - Workforce management information: December 2013. Updated page title from Workforce management information: 2013 to Workforce management information for HMRC and the VOA: 2013]
Summary data for the workforce in HM Revenue & Customs and the Valuation Office Agency during 2013.

 

Guidance: Reassessing existing DLA claimants for PIP

28 January, 2014 at 02:55pm

[Updated: Corrected guidance in the factsheet on when existing DLA claimants will be invited to claim PIP (specific award end dates for each reassessment area), due to gradual roll out.]
The process for inviting existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claimants to claim for Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

 

Press release: Over £400 million boost for business and local economies

29-01-2014 09:01 AM GMT

The government’s long-term economic plan is targeting high streets and local industries.

Guidance: Business rates: retail relief

29 January, 2014 at 09:01am

Guidance for local authorities about the operation and delivery of retail relief.

Speech: Universal Credit rolling out – what it means for employers

29 January, 2014 at 10:51am

Lord Freud discusses how Universal Credit will help employees to work more hours and calls on employers to champion the new benefit.

 

Guidance: Universal Credit and rented housing

29 January, 2014 at 10:55am

This document explains what Universal Credit means for landlords and tenants.

 

Statistics: Experimental statistics from the 2013 MoJ /DWP /HMRC data share

30 January, 2014 at 09:32am

This report presents findings from work to share administrative data between the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

 

Statistics: Non-domestic rates collected by local councils in England: forecast for 2013 to 2014

30 January, 2014 at 09:32am

[Updated: Supplementary tables added.]
Details of the forecasts of national non-domestic rates to be collected by local authorities in England.

 

Press release: £165m fund to help housing benefit claimants

30 January, 2014 at 12:54pm

Councils will receive £165 million to support vulnerable claimants who might need extra support next year (2014 to 2015).

 

Statistics: Quality report: Tax Credits error and fraud statistics

31 January, 2014 at 01:39pm

Estimates of error and fraud within Working Tax Credit (WTC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) have been produced for all years since their introduction in 2003 to 2004.

 

 


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