Written Question·Treasury·UIN 126952

Stamp Duty Land Tax

Tabled: 13 April 2026
Answered: 20 April 2026

Question

Mr Joshua Reynolds

Liberal DemocratMaidenhead

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on Stamp Duty Land Tax receipts when local authorities are unable to process land charges searches due to IT system failures.

Answer

James Murray
The government does not hold this data. The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and HM Land Registry (HMLR) are actively transforming the way Local Land charge data is held and searched through HMLR’s Local Land Charges Programm...

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