1. All the correspondence from January 1 2023 to date between Wokingham Borough Council and Carter Jonas with regard to the valuation of Wokingham Borough Council assets.

The Councils Property and Estates team have advised us that this information is exempt. Asset valuations are a statutory financial requirement as part of the Council’s audit and the results of each Council audit are published on the Council’s website at the appropriate time, therefore there will be information that is covered by the Section 22 exemption: future publication.

The conversations that will go on between parties will have legal professional privilege (Section 42), Information provided in confidence (section 41) and parts which would be commercially sensitive (section 43). It is financial advice provided to us in relation to the Council’s audit, our correspondence with Carter Jonas also contains myriad documents which are not public documents such as leases/heads of terms for new lettings and are considered to be confidential. Information that is able to be published will fall into the above and will be published when it has gone through the appropriate process. Carter Jonas are the Council’s retained asset valuer's and the valuation work that is done with them should not be published until the relevant time, and conversations will contain confidential matters.