Question follow-through · 58868
Mortgages: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of historical mortgage tax relief schemes in supporting access to home ownership.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of historical mortgage tax relief schemes in supporting access to home ownership.
12 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government must ensure the tax system supports strong public finances whilst targeting support where it is most needed. Mortgage interest relief, which was a historical feature of the UK tax system that was abolished in 2000, benefitted lower income i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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