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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey, Carmen Aguilar García and Michael Goodier

No timeline for lifting Land Registry paywall as ownership remains opaque

Farmland in Carmarthenshire, south Wales.
Defra has said it wants data on the ownership of larger properties in England and Wales to be made free to access. Photograph: Keith Morris/Alamy

The government has refused to say when the public will be able to freely access information about who owns large plots of land across England and Wales.

Emma Reynolds, the previous secretary of state for the environment, announced in March that the paywall protecting large amounts of the Land Registry would be partly lifted.

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