Question follow-through · 76935
Housing: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent mortgage providers from excluding Section 157 properties by default.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 22 Sept 2025 · 10 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 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent mortgage providers from excluding Section 157 properties by default.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Sept 2025
Answer published
HM Treasury is regularly in contact with mortgage lenders on all aspects of their mortgage business to understand their position and current lending conditions. However, the pricing of mortgages, including the availability of mortgage finance for particul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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