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<p>As stated in the Government’s Transformation Strategy and the Conservative Manifesto,
this government is committed to providing services that are digital by default - reducing
paper and manual processing, reducing cost and improving user satisfaction.</p><p>BEIS
is actively working with all its Arm’s Length Bodies, internal teams and contracted
service providers to reduce the amount of paper processing by delivering services
digitally wherever possible. There will always be some exceptions where, for legal
reasons, paper processing is required but we will continue to explore how new technologies
can overcome these barriers and implement them as soon as possible.</p><p>Some examples
of what the BEIS Group has already delivered or are in the process of delivering include:</p><p>Land
Registry has developed a new Local Land Charge Register Service to digitise existing
paper records from 326 Local Authorities and migrate them to a single national Local
Land Charge register. This will improve resilience, improve the customer experience
of using this service and introduce standardise fees.</p><p>The Innovation Funding
Service has developed a new digital service to replace a previously paper based process
to submit online applications for research and development funding. Innovate UK run
approximately 100 competitions per year and receives in excess of 4,000 applications.</p><p>Finally,
the Intellectual Property Office has designed a new digital service that enables customers
to apply for a patent design online. This includes the implementation of a new back
office system that will deliver a more efficient, cost effective service that will
lower operating costs and reduce the fees for customers registering a design.</p>
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