HM Land Registry Swansea - About HM Land Registry Swansea

HM Land Registry (HMLR) is a non-ministerial department as well as a partner body of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and was set up in 1862. HMLR safeguards land and property ownership valued at £7 trillion, enabling over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales. The Land Register contains more than 26 million titles showing evidence of ownership for more than 87% of the land mass of England and Wales. Anyone buying or selling land or property, or taking out a mortgage, must apply to us to register.

Currently HMLR employs approximately 6393 people in 14 locations, with 650 employed by the Swansea business unit with staff based in the office and remotely.

A key part of the organisation’s Business Strategy, our People Strategy includes an Attendance, Health & Wellbeing Framework to ensure that HMLR is a great place to work. The linked delivery plan encompasses all areas including a requirement that each business unit has a Health and Wellbeing Committee. This formalises the structure in place locally since 2002 when Swansea first set up a Health Promotion Committee to support the local Senior Leadership Team to undertake health promotion initiatives and ensure all policies, national and local, encompass a holistic approach to supporting staff to be fit, well and in work.

Our workforce has until very recently been an ageing one, bringing challenges in supporting staff both through short term and long term sickness absence in a managed and supportive way.

Page last reviewed: 21st March 2025