Question follow-through · 81240
Mutual Societies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to formally consult with financial mutual businesses on doubling the size of the mutual sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to formally consult with financial mutual businesses on doubling the size of the mutual sector.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2025
Answer published
The government is committed to supporting the growth of financial mutuals in line with the manifesto commitment to double the size of the mutual and co-operative sector. HM Treasury has already announced measures to support financial mutuals and is curren...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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