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.

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.