PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Property Searches (9 July 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect on completion times for LLC1 local searches as a result of centralising the local land charges register in line with proposals in the Infrastructure Bill [Lords].

Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)

Creating a single, digital Local Land Charges register will lead to a reduction in search turnaround times on average. Searches currently take between 1 and more than 20 days and Land Registry intends to reduce this to minutes. In 2013/14, Land Registry dealt with 11.5 million requests for registers of title and title plans, of which 98.2% were delivered electronically to the customer: Local Land Charges searches are similar and Land Registry will utilise its expertise to provide them in a similar way.

Answered by:
Matt Hancock (Conservative)
17 July 2014