Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the privatisation of the Land Registry on the effectiveness of its service.

I am pleased to say we are consulting on this very issue at the moment.

We want to accelerate the transformation and digitisation of the Land Registry, improving the service it offers.

However, we would only proceed with any change if we were convinced it would provide a continued appropriate level of service.