Question follow-through · 81778
Individual Savings Accounts: First Time Buyers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of first-time buyers unable to use Lifetime ISA savings towards home purchases due to house price limits being exceeded.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of first-time buyers unable to use Lifetime ISA savings towards home purchases due to house price limits being exceeded.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
HMRC does not collect information on the sale price of houses in the UK when the individual is unable to utilize a Lifetime ISA. HMRC publishes information on withdrawal charges, but are unable to distinguish if charges were incurred due to a planned hous...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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