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Mortgages

Asked by Steve DarlingLiberal DemocratTreasuryTabled Answered 13 October 2025UIN 77232

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the report by the London School of Economics entitled Releasing the Mortgage Prisoners, published in F

Answered by Lucy Rigby

The Government takes the issue of mortgage prisoners seriously. We understand the challenges that this cohort of borrowers faces and will work with regulators and the industry to ensure that this problem is properly considered.

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