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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5F-02867

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 December 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02847

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 December 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02822

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02793

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02770

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02743

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5W-19292

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 2 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how Registers of Scotland ensures that alterations to the Register, resulting in a discrepancy between the occupied and legal extent of a property, are effectively communicated to affected homeowners.

This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland. She advises me that when the registration process is complete a notification is sent to the applicant, most often via their solicitor, which includes a copy of the land register title sheet and plan showing the legal boundaries of the properties as registered. Typically any discrepancy between occupational and legal extent would have been resolved before registration but this stage in the process provides an opportunity to check the position again.

Where the Ordnance Survey basemap is updated following resurvey the Keeper will make consequential changes to the Land Register map where they are minor in nature (ie within the tolerance of the basemap). The Keeper does not notify homeowners in these circumstances as the changes are not material. Where the changes to the Ordnance Survey basemap are more significant, the Keeper does not update the mapping of the land registered title. Instead she maintains the legal extent of the title but updates the land register to show the new Ordnance Survey map. The homeowner is not notified as no change is being made to their legal title.

The Keeper will only alter the legal extent of a registered title when an inaccuracy is discovered in the mapping of the title. In those instances, the homeowners will be notified in writing, again most often via their solicitor.

Question reference: S5W-19291

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 31 October 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what procedures the Registers of Scotland has in place to allow homeowners to challenge what they perceive to be inaccuracies in the Land Register.

This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland. She advises me that the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 places her under a statutory duty to rectify inaccuracies in the register where they are manifest and how to correct the inaccuracy is also manifest. The Keeper provides a short form on the Registers of Scotland website for homeowners or their solicitor to notify her of potential inaccuracies. Decisions of the Keeper, including those on whether to rectify or not, can be appealed on a point of fact or law to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.

Question reference: S5F-02721

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 October 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02689

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 October 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.