Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress the Department has made since 2017 in increasing transparency on who owns land and the options held over it.

My department is working with HM Land Registry to meet the commitment of registering all publicly-owned land by 2025, with the aim of achieving comprehensive registration in England and Wales by 2030. To assist this process, it has recently published a list of unregistered land believed to be owned by central and local government. The list is available at https://data.gov.uk/dataset/4f5ed3a2-1dbc-41bc-ba1b-bf840e781e08/central-and-local-government-un-registered-land.