Question follow-through · 51555
Mortgages
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that mortgage lenders do not require EWS1 forms where there is no legal requirement; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact o
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 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
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that mortgage lenders do not require EWS1 forms where there is no legal requirement; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact o
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
External Wall System (EWS1) forms are not a legal or regulatory requirement in any circumstance.My Department works closely with the mortgage lending industry to understand the challenges in the market for flats affected by fire safety issues, and we are ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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