Question follow-through · 18939
Mortgages: First Time Buyers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions she has had with mortgage providers on the availability of low deposit mortgages for first time buyers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions she has had with mortgage providers on the availability of low deposit mortgages for first time buyers.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government is regularly in contact with mortgage lenders on all aspects of their business, including the provision of finance to first time buyers. This Government will turn the dream of owning a home into a reality by fixing the planning system and b...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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