Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the 2017 White Paper entitled Fixing our broken housing market, when he plans to launch a consultation on increasing the transparency of private contractual option agreements held over land.

MHCLG is working with HM Land Registry to meet the Housing White Paper commitments on land registration, including registering all publicly-owned land by 2025 with the aim of achieving comprehensive registration in England and Wales by 2030. To assist this process, it has published a list of unregistered land believed to be owned by central and local government.