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Domestic Abuse: Mortgages

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help prevent joint mortgages being used as a method of financial abuse.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
25 Nov 2024
Answer
25 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help prevent joint mortgages being used as a method of financial abuse.

  2. 25 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The Government recognises the devastating impact financial and economic abuse can have on victims, which extends far beyond the impact to their finances and includes the use of joint mortgages to control or exploit victims.We continue to work closely with...

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