Comments on: UK Land Registry to cut costs, 1,500 jobs to be axed http://www.globalcrisisnews.com/europe/uk-land-registry-to-cut-costs-1500-jobs-to-be-axed/id=1221/ Headlines from around the globe! Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Harvey http://www.globalcrisisnews.com/europe/uk-land-registry-to-cut-costs-1500-jobs-to-be-axed/id=1221/comment-page-1/#comment-3300 John Harvey Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:29:16 +0000 http://www.globalcrisisnews.com/?p=1221#comment-3300 Little could be more damaging to the improvement of public services in the UK than the announcement of swingeing job losses at the Land Registry in the week when we are told that bankers are back on bonuses Having spent forty years in conveyancing I know that the Registry is a fine organisation. From a low point some years ago it has re-invented itself. Fees were cut annually for more than a decade. Promptness has been improved to the point that those dealing with it could only complain about a lack of time to draw breath. Customer satisfaction percentages have reached the dizzy heights of the high nineties. Major innovations such as the ending of paper deeds were introduced seamlessly. But while it has been improving the way that it provides certainty and clarity for property owners the financial services industry has undermined it by doing the opposite - trading polluted titles. It is this that has caused the property transfer industry to contract and brought crisis to the Registry. The Government needs to work with its workers to implement efficiency. The message that success in doing so in the public sector does not warrant the protection given to those failing in private organisations is counterproductive in the strictest sense of the word. How can any postal worker now trust that he or she will be treated fairly in return for co-operating over the introduction of service improvements? Little could be more damaging to the improvement of public services in the UK than the announcement of swingeing job losses at the Land Registry in the week when we are told that bankers are back on bonuses

Having spent forty years in conveyancing I know that the Registry is a fine organisation. From a low point some years ago it has re-invented itself. Fees were cut annually for more than a decade. Promptness has been improved to the point that those dealing with it could only complain about a lack of time to draw breath. Customer satisfaction percentages have reached the dizzy heights of the high nineties. Major innovations such as the ending of paper deeds were introduced seamlessly.

But while it has been improving the way that it provides certainty and clarity for property owners the financial services industry has undermined it by doing the opposite – trading polluted titles. It is this that has caused the property transfer industry to contract and brought crisis to the Registry.

The Government needs to work with its workers to implement efficiency. The message that success in doing so in the public sector does not warrant the protection given to those failing in private organisations is counterproductive in the strictest sense of the word. How can any postal worker now trust that he or she will be treated fairly in return for co-operating over the introduction of service improvements?

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