FOI Release: RoS Spend Information

* The figures provided for 2024/25 are unaudited and there may be future adjustments.

** We do not structure or record our data in a way that allows us to report on it in the way you have requested. While we aim to be as transparent and helpful as possible, FOISA only applies to information we already hold and can retrieve without creating new data.

*** The figures provided here show the pre-capitalisation adjustment cost to RoS for all days worked by all agency staff each year.

**** In common with other title registration systems globally the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland offers a state-backed guarantee of title to the person in whose favour the right has been registered.

Registration compensation schemes offer protection to those transacting in land, which increases confidence in the register and in turn economic benefits.

The right to property is protected by Article 1 of Protocol no. 1 to the European Convention of Human Rights and the provision by Registers of Scotland of safe, secure and efficient property transactions contributes to the Scottish Government’s National Outcome of having a globally competitive, entrepreneurial, inclusive and sustainable economy.

The duty on the Keeper to pay compensation is imposed by the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 and triggered only in limited circumstances as provided by the 2012 Act.

The duty to pay compensation can come about in a variety of ways, for example, registration error, transactional error or loss arising from a change in the underlying legal position.

Compensation is therefore not reliably indicative of human mistake.

All compensation claims are rigorously assessed and evidenced before they are settled.