Question follow-through · 82062
Help to Buy Scheme: Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered increasing the cap on house prices from £250,000 for Help to Buy ISAs outside of London, in the context of increases in house prices nationally.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered increasing the cap on house prices from £250,000 for Help to Buy ISAs outside of London, in the context of increases in house prices nationally.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to helping first time buyers own their own home, and will do this by building 1.5 million more homes.The Government keeps savings policy under review, any changes of this kind would be made at a relevant fiscal event.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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