Question follow-through · 12956

Public Works Loan Board: Interest Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review Public Works Loan Board rates offered to councils.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
11 Nov 2024
Answer
18 Nov 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to review Public Works Loan Board rates offered to councils.

  2. 11 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The PWLB lending facility exists to provide cost effective loans to local authorities to support investments and service delivery. HMT keeps all PWLB rates under review, including the discounted rate for investment in social housing which we extended in A...

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