Oral Question·Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 22 October 2020Answered: 5 November 2020
Asked by
Vicky Foxcroft
Labour — Lewisham North
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answer from Hansard
Lucy Rigby
I know how passionate my hon. Friend is about the Government’s priority to get more first-time buyers on to the housing ladder. As he and I have discussed before, people looking to buy a home can build their credit history through rent payments by using third-party services that report these things to credit reference agencies. I think that he and I would agree that better awareness of such services and the mortgages available that take account of tenants’ rental payments would be a good thing.