Written Question·Treasury·UIN 77232

Mortgages

Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 13 October 2025

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

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

Answer

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.