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174986

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on small and micro businesses of centralising local land charges registers.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	221555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>A Regulatory Impact Assessment relating to the provision of Local Land Charges has been produced by Land Registry. The Impact Assessment is a living document and continues to be revised in the light of greater stakeholder engagement. This takes into account the potential benefits of a fully digitised service to mitigate the effects of degrading paper and other records, with improved turnaround times, greater efficiencies and a lower fee for the customer. The Impact Assessment states that creating a single, digital Local Land Charges register would enable small and micro businesses to streamline their access arrangements.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/01/2015 15:45:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

174987

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what secondary legislation would be required, in addition to the Infrastructure Bill, in order to extend centralisation of local land charges register data to CON29 searches.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	221556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The CON 29 service is a non-statutory service provided by local authorities. The measures in the Infrastructure Bill will only transfer responsibility for the statutory local land charges service from local authorities to Land Registry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 17:07:56 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

175020

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many local authorities were involved in trials of the new local land charges register scheme.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	221557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>7 local authorities took part in the prototype exercise in 2013. They were;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Liverpool</p><p> </p><p>Sefton</p><p> </p><p>Denbighshire</p><p> </p><p>Newark and Sherwood</p><p> </p><p>Swindon</p><p> </p><p>Watford</p><p> </p><p>Havant</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 15:39:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

175021

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what safeguards are in place to ensure that prospective home-ownership deals do not collapse as a result of centralising local land charges registers.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	221558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>To safeguard home-ownership Land Registry already rigorously tests all IT solutions it builds and it will do the same for any new Local Land Charges system that it introduces.</p><p> </p><p>Implementation will also require a range of secondary legislation to support the changes, so ensuring that Parliament has the opportunity to monitor progress and to comment where it is deemed necessary.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/01/2015 15:33:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

167964

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Mentorsme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the performance of the Mentors Me website.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	217143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>Last year the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) funded the creation of a network of 27,000 accredited business mentors and partnered with the British Bankers Association (BBA) and Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI) to create the mentorsme website. BBA and SFEDI now lead this initiative and have established a sector-led Enterprise Mentoring Advisory Council with responsibility for assessing the performance of the mentorsme website and the initiative overall.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Advisory Council also have responsibility for upholding the standards for enterprise mentoring, promoting awareness of the benefits of and access to enterprise mentoring and acting as a central policy advisory group.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>BIS has a seat on the Advisory Council and continues to support mentorsme by driving awareness and take up of mentoring as part of the national Business is GREAT campaign and by sharing research evidence and insight.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/01/2015 11:29:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

76663

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of centralising local land charges registers on small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-businesses currently providing such services as local land charges searches.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	204724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>A Regulatory Impact Assessment relating to the provision of Local Land Charges has been produced by Land Registry and approved by BIS and the Regulatory Policy Committee.</p><p><a href="http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/91627/LR_Impact-Assessment_Wider-Powers-and-LLC-Consultation_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/91627/LR_Impact-Assessment_Wider-Powers-and-LLC-Consultation_FINAL.pdf</a></p><p>This takes into account the potential benefits of a fully digitised service with improved turnaround times, greater efficiencies and a lower fee for the customer. The Impact Assessment states that creating a single, digital Local Land Charges register will result in the significant majority of customers, including businesses, paying a lower fee per purchase for a faster service.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/07/2014 16:26:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

76664

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-businesses currently providing local land charges searches.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	204725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Land Registry officials have engaged bodies that represent a range of small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-businesses throughout the research into Local Land Charges, during the year-long prototype in 2012-13. These bodies include; the Council of Personal Search Organisations, which is a trade organisation, the Association of Independent Personal Search Agents, together with a number of personal search companies. This engagement will continue throughout the development of the policy.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 22/07/2014 14:24:42 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

76665

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received on the effect of changes to be made in the Infrastructure Bill [Lords] on improving completion times for LLC1 local searches.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	204750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>Land Registry undertook a full public consultation on Local Land Charges and Wider Powers between 16 January 2014 and 9 March 2014. This consultation received 627 responses and the Government published its response on 16 June 2014.</p><p><a href="http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/91626/Govt-Response_Report-on-Wider-Powers-LLC-Consultation-16-6-14.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/91626/Govt-Response_Report-on-Wider-Powers-LLC-Consultation-16-6-14.pdf</a></p><p>This response highlights all of the representations made by respondents. Land Registry has engaged extensively with stakeholders throughout its research into Local Land Charges and this engagement is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/07/2014 16:30:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

76666

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Property Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect on completion times for LLC1 local searches as a result of centralising the local land charges register in line with proposals in the Infrastructure Bill [Lords].
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	204751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>Creating a single, digital Local Land Charges register will lead to a reduction in search turnaround times on average. Searches currently take between 1 and more than 20 days and Land Registry intends to reduce this to minutes. In 2013/14, Land Registry dealt with 11.5 million requests for registers of title and title plans, of which 98.2% were delivered electronically to the customer: Local Land Charges searches are similar and Land Registry will utilise its expertise to provide them in a similar way.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/07/2014 16:28:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

60644

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	New Businesses: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many approved partners of the Start Up Loans programme there are in each region.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	199728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of approved partners of the Start Up Loans programme by region are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>England (National): 15</p><p> </p><p>Greater London: 11</p><p> </p><p>North West: 8</p><p> </p><p>North East: 4</p><p> </p><p>East Of England: 2</p><p> </p><p>Yorkshire And Humberside: 6</p><p> </p><p>West Midlands: 5</p><p> </p><p>East Midlands: 4</p><p> </p><p>South East: 4</p><p> </p><p>South West: 2</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland: 5</p><p> </p><p>Wales: 6</p><p> </p><p>Scotland: 5</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/06/2014 16:00:44 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins