Question follow-through · 10885
Help to Buy Scheme: Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing the purchase price limit under the help-to-buy ISA scheme in line with average house price increases.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing the purchase price limit under the help-to-buy ISA scheme in line with average house price increases.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
This Government is committed to helping first time buyers own their own home, and will do this by building 1.5 million more homes.The Government keeps savings policy under review, any changes of this kind would be made at a relevant fiscal event.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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