Mr Major’s Written Question on Land Registers – 5 June 1980

The text of Mr Major’s Parliamentary written question on Land Registers, published on 5th June 1980.

Mr. Major Asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to name the local authorities which will be required to publish land registers.

Mr. Heseltine I have selected the following districts for the first land registers to be established under the powers being sought in part X of the Local Government, Planning and Land (No. 2) Bill:

Liverpool
Wirral
Sefton
Manchester
Trafford
Preston
Salford
Stockport
Newcastle
Gateshead
Middlesbrough
Birmingham
Dudley
Stoke
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Coventry
Leeds
Bradford
Bristol
Ealing
Wandsworth