Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions rights have been registered on the Land Register through adverse possession in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

Land Registry does not hold the information on the number of occasions where applications for adverse possession have been registered in the last 3 years. ‘Adverse Possessions’ fall within the general category ‘First Registrations’ which, as the name suggests, are applications for title to unregistered land.