PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Companies: Property (19 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many properties in the UK are owned by companies registered in (a) British Overseas Territories and (b) Crown Dependencies.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

HM Land Registry holds information on registered titles in England and Wales that are owned by overseas companies. The information is released as a dataset available on GOV.UK and contains a description of the way in which the dataset is compiled.

By reference to the dataset, as of March 2018 the number of titles where the legal owner is an overseas company based in (a) British Overseas Territories is 28,360 and (b) Crown Dependencies is 43,245.

Answered by:
Andrew Griffiths (Conservative)
27 March 2018