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Her Majesty's Land Registry

Volume 458: debated on Wednesday 28 March 2007

My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State has made the following written ministerial statement:

“The following list sets out the key performance targets that have been set for Her Majesty’s Land Registry for 2007-08.

Customer Service

Speed:

Percentage of Official Copy and Search applications processed within two working days: 98% Percentage of all registrations processed within 18 working days: 80%

Accuracy:

Percentage of registrations processed free of any error: 98.5%

Overall Satisfaction1:

Percentage of customers who, overall, are very satisfied/satisfied with the full range of services provided by Land Registry: Better than 95%

Financial

Percentage return on average capital employed: 3.5%

Efficiency2

Cost per unit in cash terms3 (real terms)4: £29.95 (£20.61)

Strategic Development Areas

Customer Service

Provide a sustainable and scaleable e-security infrastructure solution, providing role-based access, identity management and future e-signature functionality for Land Registry's external and business customer base.

Land Registration

Add a further 550,000 hectares of land to the total areas of registered freehold land in England and Wales.

Electronic Service Delivery

Complete a review of responses to the consultation paper on the Land Registration (Network Access) Rules and the Land Registration (Electronic Communications) Order and report to Ministers.

Other Business Development

Move the Land Registry corporate website to the new portal and establish the portal for the use of one or more of the following segments: citizens, conveyancers, lenders, estate agents.

1Result from quarterly satisfaction survey.

2Agreed with HM Treasury on 20 December 2006.

3Based on the GDP deflator issued by HM Treasury on 21 December 2006 (base year 1992-93).

4The real term unit cost in the base year of 1992-93 was £30.65

Target 2006-07

Performance as at January 2007 (unless otherwise stated)

Target 2007-08

Customer Service

Customer Service

Speed

Speed

Percentage of official copy and search applications processed within two working days

98

98

98

Percentage of all registrations processed within 18 working days

80

88.6

80

Accuracy

Accuracy

Percentage of registrations processed free of any error

98.5

98.85

98.5

Overall Satisfaction1

Overall Satisfaction1

Percentage of customers who, overall, are very satisfied/satisfied with the full range of services provided by Land Registry

Better than 95%

98.5

Better than 95%

Financial

Financial

Percentage return on average capital employed

3.5%

17.6

3.5%

Efficiency2

Efficiency

Cost per unit in cash terms3 (real terms)4

£29.95 (£21.17)

£25.93 (£18.33)

Cost per unit in cash terms3 £29.95 (real terms)4 (20.61)

1Result from quarterly satisfaction survey (Ytd Quarter 3), next result due April 2007.

2This is a final year target towards the HM Treasury-agreed cost per unit target for 2006-07 of £29.95 in cash terms (£21.17 in real terms). Target adjusted for revised pension costs.

3Based on the GDP deflator issued by HM Treasury on 21 December 2006 (base year 1992-93)

4The real term unit cost in the base year of 1992-93 was £30.65.

Strategic Development Areas

Strategic Development Areas

Customer Service

Customer Service

Introduce imagery bases access to Land Register Online

Achieved

Provide a sustainable and scaleable e security infrastructure solution, providing role-based access, identity management and future e-signature functionality, for Land Registry’s external and business customer base.

Land Registration

Land Registration

Add a further 700,000 hectares5 of land to the total areas of registered freehold land in England and Wales

Achieved

Add a further 550,000 hectares of land to the total areas of registered freehold land in England and Wales.

Electronic Service Delivery

Electronic Service Delivery

Introduce prototype chain matrix service to provide transparency to residential conveyancing chains

On target

Complete a review of responses to the consultation paper on the Land Registration (Network Access) Rules and the Land Registration (Electronic Communications) Order and report to Ministers.

Other Business Development

Other Business Development

Establish a Land Registry Portal as a first step in implementing a single integrated customer interface for all online Land Registry information and services.

Achieved

Carry out the migration of all Land Register Online services to the Land Registry Portal.