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HM Land Registry: Staff

Asked by Mr Joshua ReynoldsLiberal DemocratMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 10 March 2026UIN 117040

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of HM Land Registry staff hold formal qualifications in (a) database architecture and (b) data structure management.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

HM Land Registry (HMLR) does not hold information on staff qualifications for technical fields such as database architecture or data structure management.

The Data Group at HMLR, which includes all Data Scientists, Data Architects, and Data Engineers, has more than doubled from 30 to 75 members of staff over the last 15 months.

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