Question follow-through · 26880

Mortgages

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the average annual cost of a five year fixed rate mortgage (a) on the week commencing 21 October 2024 and (b) in January 2025.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 28 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jan 2025
Answer: 4 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the average annual cost of a five year fixed rate mortgage (a) on the week commencing 21 October 2024 and (b) in January 2025.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
The pricing and availability of mortgages is ultimately a commercial decision for lenders, in which the Government does not intervene. Changes in offered mortgage rates are broadly driven by changes in financial market expectations for Bank Rate.Monetary ...

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