Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the Regulatory Policy Committee’s red rating of the Government’s impact assessment for the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Our legislation is sensible and proportionate and is designed to protect lives and livelihoods.
The Department is grateful for the Regulatory Policy Committee's feedback on the Impact Assessment and is currently taking their opinion into consideration, particularly the assessment of the impacts of the Bill on small and micro businesses - the only red-rated aspect of the analysis.
As stated previously, individual impact assessments will accompany consultations on the specific minimum service level for each relevant service which will be better able to assess the impacts on SMEs.
Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many applications to HM Land Registry for routine changes to existing registered titles were completed within the service standard of 60 to 80 days in Bristol West constituency in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
HM Land Registry (HMLR) publishes information on GOV.UK about its average processing times. This is available at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-processing-times.
In October-December 2022, HMLR completed 84% (1149) of applications for routine changes to update registered titles in the Bristol West constituency within 80 days and completed most (74%) within 60 days. Over a third of those applications that took longer than 80 days to complete required additional information from the conveyancer.
Customers can request fast-tracking at no extra cost if an application becomes urgent. HMLR processes over 1000 of these every day, with 95% completed within 10 working days.