Question follow-through · 81152
Help to Buy Scheme: Essex
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in Essex who have been able to successfully utilise the help to buy scheme.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in Essex who have been able to successfully utilise the help to buy scheme.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
A total of 14,665 have accessed Help to Buy in the county of Essex. A breakdown of Help to Buy figures from April 2013 to May 2023 is as follows: Basildon 1,015Braintree 1,469Brentwood 506Castle Point 192Chelmsford 1,437Colchester 2,829Epping Forest 243Ha...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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20 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of levels of availability of accessible housing on the ability of older people to move out of larger family homes.
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