in fact double Land Registry's income ‘yet is a relatively small burden for the homebuyer in amongst the other costs and charges involved in the process’ of privatisation’. The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has claimed that the privatisation would give a private organisation monopoly to commercially valuable data and provide little inclination to improve anyone's access to it. Currently the Land Registry makes some datasets available for purchase by private companies and other organisations, such as Search Providers. Private search companies and ordering platforms have been integrating Land Registry's data to improve search ordering for conveyancers. Data from Land Registry's National Spatial Dataset, for example, has been used to display boundary maps on-screen using a live data link to help conveyancers validate property locations. The government made further proposals to privatise the Land Registry in a consultation which ran from 24 March to 26 May 2016. In the 2016 Autumn Statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond put an end to speculation about Land Registry privatisation: See also Geospatial Commission Rural Land Register National Land and Property Gazetteer Housing in the United Kingdom Torrens system Bibliography Ch.26 for current law in England and Wales References External links Land Registry website Registers of Scotland website Department for Business, Innovation and Skills English property law Housing in the United Kingdom Executive agencies of the United Kingdom government Trading funds of the United Kingdom government Government databases in the United Kingdom Databases in England Databases in Wales 1862 establishments in England Geographical databases in the United Kingdom Geographic data and information organisations in the United Kingdom Land registration