§ Mr. WyattTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs who owns the unmade road at the bottom of Gordon Avenue and Harold Street in Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey. [171384]
§ Mr. LammyLand Registry currently holds information on the ownership of almost 19.5 million registered titled in England and Wales. This information is routinely made available to everyone, on the payment of small fee.
Land Registry processed over four million such requests in 2002–03, over 99 per cent. of which were processed within two working days of receipt. Methods of application for land registration services, and the fees payable, are prescribed by statute and it would be inappropriate for these to be circumvented by a Parliamentary Question.
I have asked the Chief Land Registrar to write to my hon. Friend setting out the options for acquiring this information.