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Written question asked by Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour) on Tuesday, 10 February 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 12 February 2015. It was answered by Matt Hancock (Conservative) on Monday, 23 February 2015 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.


Property Searches

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to local authorities of the proposed takeover of responsibility for LLC1 searches by the Land Registry.

Answer

All costs of the conversion from the various databases held locally at the moment, whether they involve paper, microfiche or any other format to a digitised process, will be met by Land Registry.

Whilst costs to local authorities will be taken into account by Land Registry, they have yet to be broken down into greater detail at this stage, so as not to prejudice Land Registry’s commercial interests in respect of future procurement activity.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
224133
Session
2014-15
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Local government HM Land Registry Property searches
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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