§ Mr. Brightasked the Attorney-General if he will make a statement about the refund of fees by the Land Registry in the light of the High Court ruling of 18 May.
§ The Attorney-GeneralFollowing the recent High Court judgment that the Land Registration Fee Order 1981 was being wrongly interpreted in certain respects, a supplementary supply estimate will be presented in due course to allow for the repayment of those fees which must now be held to have been overpaid. Pending Parliamentary approval of the supplementary estimate, urgent payments of up to £1,500,000 will be met by repayable advances from the Contingencies Fund.