PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Property Searches (9 July 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-businesses currently providing local land charges searches.

Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)

Land Registry officials have engaged bodies that represent a range of small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-businesses throughout the research into Local Land Charges, during the year-long prototype in 2012-13. These bodies include; the Council of Personal Search Organisations, which is a trade organisation, the Association of Independent Personal Search Agents, together with a number of personal search companies. This engagement will continue throughout the development of the policy.

Answered by:
Matt Hancock (Conservative)
22 July 2014