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Written question asked by Stephen Timms (Labour) on Monday, 2 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 5 March 2015 (named day). It was answered by Matt Hancock (Conservative) on Thursday, 5 March 2015 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.


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Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to implement the changes to local land charges registers resulting from the Infrastructure Act 2015.

Answer

Implementation will be phased. For each Local Authority, the first step will be collating the data they hold and checking it is accurate. The checked datasets will then need to be transformed into a digital format before being transferred into the central register Land Registry will create. The Local Land Charges service will only transfer from individual Local Authorities to the Land Registry once this process has been completed, and is functioning.

Implementation will also require a range of secondary legislation to support the changes (for example, Local Land Charges Rules), including expected timing for this to take place.

Those rules will be the subject of a public consultation, currently planned for September 2015.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
225822
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Property searches
Legislation
Infrastructure Act 2015
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk