Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Help to Buy Scheme – Parliamentary Written Answer

Lord Cooper of Windrush: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the total cost of the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme since its introduction. 
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) individuals, and (2) families, have bought homes through the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: The total cost of running the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme from its introduction in 13 October to 31 March 2016 was £11.9 million. This has been paid in full with the commercial fees collected from lenders. The Treasury routinely publishes Official Statistics on the performance of the Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee scheme. The most recent publication was on 30 March 2017. This showed 101,960 mortgages had been completed with the support of the scheme. We do not record whether mortgage applications submitted to the scheme are made by a single individual or jointly.

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